Biography of Chaim Soutine

Chaim Soutine was born and raised in the town of Smilavichy, near Minsk, in what's current Belorussia. The tenth of eleven kids, his father was a tailor and Soutine was raised beneath very modest means that. His upbringing was fairly typical of Russian-born Jews throughout this era, who were forced to endure ill-treatment and discrimination from a hostile government. Soutine's interest in drawing...