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==Early life== {{multiple image | align = right | direction = horizontal | header = | header_align = left/right/center | header_background = | footer = | footer_align = left/right/center | footer_background = | width = | image1 = Amedeo Modigliani 036.jpg | width1 = 160 | caption1 = [[Amedeo Modigliani]], ''Portrait of Soutine'', 1916 | alt1 = A painting of a man | image2 = Amedeo Modigliani - Chaim Soutine (1917).jpg | width2 = 160 | caption2 = [[Amedeo Modigliani]], ''Chaim Soutine'', 1917, [[National Gallery of Art]] | alt2 = A painting of a man }} Soutine was born '''Chaim-Iche Solomonovich Sutin''', in [[Smilavichy]] (Yiddish: סמילאָוויץ, romanized: Smilovitz) in the [[Minsk Governorate]] of the [[Russian Empire]] (present-day [[Belarus]]). He was [[Jewish]]<ref>[https://hyperallergic.com/459453/the-carcass-and-the-canvas-and-other-chaim-soutine-stories/ By Norman Kleeblatt, September 14, 2018, Hyperallergic]</ref> and the 10th of 11 children born to parents Zalman (also reported as Solomon and Salomon) Moiseevich Sutin (1858–1932) and Sarah Sutina (née Khlamovna) (died in 1938).<ref>{{Cite web|title=Sarah Sutina|url=https://www.geni.com/people/Sarah-Sutina/6000000002410224403|access-date=19 October 2020|website=geni_family_tree|language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title=Salomon Sutin|url=https://www.geni.com/people/Salomon-Sutin/6000000002410274465|access-date=19 October 2020|website=geni_family_tree|language=en-US}}</ref> From 1910 to 1913 he studied in [[Vilnius]] at a small art Academy.<!--Not the Vilnius Academy of Arts, which was not in operation between 1860s and 1919.--><ref>Giraudon, Colette (2003). "Soutine, Chaïm". Grove Art Online.</ref> In 1913, with his friends [[Pinchus Kremegne]] and [[Michel Kikoine]], he emigrated to Paris, where he studied at the {{lang|fr|[[École des Beaux-Arts]]|italic=no}} under [[Fernand Cormon]]. He soon developed a highly personal vision and painting technique.
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