From 1930 to 1935, the interior designer Madeleine Castaing and her husband welcomed him to their summer home, the mansion of Lèves, becoming his patrons, so that Soutine could hold his first exhibition in Chicago in 1935.
So she grew up under the care of her mother, who later had an affair with the artist Chaim Soutine.
Chaim Weizmann | Chaim Topol | Chaim Soutine | Chaim Kanievsky | Yeshiva Rabbi Chaim Berlin | Chaim Herzog | Yaakov Chaim Sofer | Chaim Gingold | Yosef Chaim | Chaim Zhitlowsky | Chaim Rapoport | Nahshon Even-Chaim | Chaim Yitzchak Bloch Hacohen | Chaim Yisroel Eiss | Chaïm Soutine | Chaim Shemesh | Chaim Rumkowski | Chaim Pinchas Scheinberg | Chaïm Perelman | Chaim Loike | Chaim Kreiswirth | Chaim Halberstam | Chaim Gutnick | Chaim Bermant | Chaim Benveniste |
There are also landscapes and mythological scenes by Claude Lorrain, Gabriel Briard, Nicolas-Antoine Taunay, a Still-life by Pierre-Auguste Renoir and works by the painters of the School of Paris, like Chaim Soutine and Maurice de Vlaminck, beside two important canvases by Marc Chagall: À la campagne and Couple with flowers and a rooster.
When John Kraushaar, Charles's younger brother, joined the business the gallery also began showing modern French painters: Soutine, Matisse, Roualt, Modigliani, Redon, Picasso and other late 19th- and early 20th-century artists.
It became the nexus for those at the cutting-edge of art at the time, when Erik Satie, Henri Matisse, Nina Hamnett, Amedeo Modigliani, Ossip Zadkine, Juan Gris, and Chaim Soutine started dropping by in the evenings for conversation and occasionally to draw.
From Cubism to the School of Paris, from Nouveau réalisme to Supports/Surfaces, the collections of the Museum shows the intense relationship between the city of Céret and some of the major artists of the twentieth century: Pablo Picasso, Georges Braque, Juan Gris, Chaim Soutine, Marc Chagall, Raoul Dufy, Auguste Herbin, Henri Matisse, Miró, Antoni Tàpies, Claude Viallat, and Toni Grand.