Editing Chaïm Soutine (section)

==== Carcass paintings ====
Soutine once horrified his neighbors by keeping an animal carcass in his studio so that he could paint it (''Carcass of Beef''). The stench drove them to send for the police, whom Soutine promptly lectured on the relative importance of art over hygiene. There is a story that [[Marc Chagall]] saw the blood from the carcass leak out onto the corridor outside Soutine's room, and rushed out screaming, "Someone has killed Soutine."<ref>{{cite book|title=Chagall - Love and Exile|first=Jackie|last= Wullschlager|publisher=Allen Lane|year=2008|isbn=978-0-7139-9652-4|page=154}}</ref> Soutine painted 10 works in this series, which have since become his most well-known. His carcass paintings such as ''[[The Flayed Ox]]'' were inspired by [[Rembrandt]]'s still life of the same subject, ''[[Slaughtered Ox]]'',  which he discovered while studying the [[Old Masters]] in the [[Louvre]].

Soutine produced the majority of his works from 1920 to 1929. From 1930 to 1935, the interior designer [[Madeleine Castaing]] and her husband welcomed him to their summer home, the mansion of [[Lèves]], becoming his [[patron]]s, so that Soutine could hold his first exhibition in [[Chicago]] in 1935. He seldom showed his works, but he did take part in the important exhibition ''The Origins and Development of International Independent Art'' held at the [[Galerie nationale du Jeu de Paume]] in 1937 in Paris, where he was at last hailed as a great painter.