A French-Belarussian painter born in 1893 and died in 1943, Soutine was a tormented, rather associal artist. Within the Expressionist movement, he developed his own unclassifiable style, with work on thickness, flamboyant or violent colours, deformed figures, apparently in a form of turmoil. The Abstract Expressionists of the 1950s saw Soutine as a precursor of their own movement.