The Real Thing

In 1931 Chaïm Soutine was moved to recreate Rembrandt’s A Woman Bathing in a Stream (1654), which depicts a woman—thought to be his partner, Hendrickje Stoffels—in shallow water with her dress hiked up above her knees. Madeleine Castaing, an interior designer who had become Soutine’s patron three years earlier, and her husband, Marcellin, helped him search the […]