A Line Runs From Soutine to Savdie, and It Isn't Straight

Norr Cohan has set Ilana Savdie's work alongside Chaïm Soutine's, closing a hundred years between them to see what the two painters share in color and in gesture. It's an unlikely pairing on paper: Soutine's early-twentieth-century canvases and Savdie's contemporary ones, both built on distortion rather than likeness. Put side by side, the affinities Cohan draws out are less about influence than instinct, the same restlessness showing up a century apart. For anyone who follows either painter, or simply the way figuration keeps bending in new hands, it's a pairing worth a second look.

With reporting from Artnet News.