Record price for Soutine painting

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Chaim Soutine was born in Lithuania in 1893. At the age of 20 he went
to Paris to study art and met artists such as Modigliani, Chagall and
Laurens. His first one-man exhibition took place in 1927.

One of his 'carcass paintings' (inspired by Rembrandt's still life of
the same subject, which he discovered while studying the Old Masters in
the Louvre) has just sold for a record £7.8m at auction in London.
The sale, to an anonymous buyer, set a world record for the
expressionist artist's work.

Le Boeuf Écorché is one of half a dozen paintings of the carcass.
The others are all owned by major museums. A spokeswoman for
Christie's said this was probably why the painting sold for much more
than its estimate.

French impressionist Camille Pissarro's La Seine à Bougival failed to
sell - it was expected to fetch between £2m and £3m.

A Pierre-Henri Renoir portrait of his older brother sold for £2.02m.

Another painting by Soutine sold for £411,200 at the Impressionist and
Modern Art Sale.