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Сообщение от DimaB

And now, about Soutine: not sure of his mastery of Russian. In my opinion, in Smilavichy talked more in Yiddish.
At least, on Chagall recall that in Russian, he spoke with difficulty

Is it matter what language to speak?
For example, the poet and painter Vladimir Slepian, one of the first who left the Soviet Union, principally spoke only in French (he lived in Paris). And even meeting with his countrymen, demanding to converse in French, no doubt, therefore, expressing his "contempt" for the former homeland. Poems he wrote in French, incidentally.
And does that make it ceases to be "a Russian artist in exile"?