“You don't like my painting, you only want to help me. If you had given me one franc for my picture I would have taken it [when M. Castaing discovered his art for the very first time and offered him in advance 100 franc to make a new painting - circa 1917 – 1919]”

As quoted in Soutine, Monrou Wheeler, Museum of modern art, New York, 1950; p. 37

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