Not a single painting by Chaim Soutine hangs in the Museum of Modern Art. This is true despite his pivotal influence on major artists over the past half-century. And a show pairing his work with ...

NEW YORK, May 21 -- -- NEW YORK, May 21 -- A court settlement has transferred ownership of a painting by expressionist Chaim Soutine from the National Gallery of Art to the estate of a Canadian ...

Chaim Soutine’s identity was never integral to his art, even as a Jew whose death Nazis caused. Artists in Gaza, Syria and Ukraine share his universality.

The money that Soutine’s family received in damages allowed the aspiring painter to study art in nearby Minsk. From there, he moved to Vilnius and, three years later, to Paris.

The Soutine cult doesn’t register with MoMA, however: None of his paintings hang in the museum’s permanent display, and the museum recently deaccessioned an important 1934 canvas, “Chartres Cathedral.