Chaim Soutine: Genius, Obsession, and a Dramatic Life in Art by Celeste Marcus
(Public Affairs)
October 28, 2025
BASED IN WASHINGTON DC, Celeste Marcus, who’s also managing editor of the journal Liberties, has been at work at this first-ever full-length biography of the Minsk-born painter. Soutine was part of the Paris Jewish artists’ colony in the 1920s and 30s, along with the likes of Marc Chagall, Amedeo Modigliani, and Pablo Picasso. He fled the city during the Nazi invasion and eventually died at their hands. Known for his obsessive, eccentric approach, Marcus attempts to chronicle his life while also showing how his work reverberates through to contemporary painters and techniques. Jonathan Rothman
