Editing Chaïm Soutine (section)

==== Between Paris and Le Midi ====
By 1926, five of Soutine's paintings were sold at Drouot for amounts ranging from 10,000 to 22,000 francs.<ref name="CG1">{{harvsp|Giraudon|2012|p=35}}.</ref> However, this did not prevent him from boycotting the opening in June 1927 of the first exhibition of his works by Henri Bing in Bing's gallery on Rue La Boétie.<ref>{{harvsp|Breton|2007|p=50}}.</ref> On the other hand, he reportedly eagerly accepted the opportunity to create set designs for a ballet by Diaghilev—a project that never materialized due to the sudden death of the impresario in 1929.