Charcoal and color pastels on cream wove paper, circa 1945. 305x223 mm; 12x8 7/8 inches. Signed in pen and black ink, lower right recto, and signed by Soyer in pencil, lower right recto.
Provenance: Private collection, New Jersey.
Raphael Soyer (1899-1974), counted Burliuk (1882-1967) as one of his closest companions, both were part of a community of primarily émigrés of the Russian Federation known as the Hampton Bays Art Group.
A similar portrait done by Burliuk of Moses Soyer (1899-1974), twin brother of Raphael was sold at Swann Galleries, New York, June 9, 2016, sale 2418, lot 85.
