Chaim Soutine, great artist but disturbed?

Portrait of a Young Woman, 1915 Wiki Pastry Cook of Cagnes, 1922 The Guardian Grotesque self portrait, c1923 Musée d'Art Moderne de Paris. Thanks to George Prochnik for this review. From 1913, to get from Smilovichi, a shtetl in Belarus , to Paris . 20 year old artist Chaim Soutine (1893-1943) made many visits to the Louvre to study the canvas. In the mid-1920s he decided to translate it into his…