This is the audio version of the blog post 'Soutine’s Portraits Exhibition At The Courtauld Gallery'. The post was written by Stewart Cliff, who volunteered with the Courtauld Connects Conway Library digitisation project. It was first published on 1 November 2017. This audio version is read by Elena Vardon, who is a digitisation volunteer.
In this blog, Stewart discusses the portraits made by Soutine displayed at The Courtauld in 2017. He discusses how the artist's work relates to that of his contemporaries, including photographers, other painters, and modernist and post-modernist designers. Stewart shows us a way of looking at the portraits as having a photographic quality that captures a fleeting real moment in time, and he explains how Soutine - who lived in destitution in Europe - found fame in the USA.
You can find the written version with images on our blog http://blog.courtauld.ac.uk/digitalmedia/2017/11/01/stewart-cliff-soutines-portraits-exhibition/
