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JOSEPH SOLMAN Seated Woman.
Gouache, pencil and black crayon on newspaper mounted on cardstock. 356x267 mm; 14x10 1/2 inches. Signed in pencil, lower right recto.
According to the artist's son, Paul, before Solman became a professor of painting at City University of New York, he spent roughly 20 years working as a clerk at the Belmont, Aqueduct and Jamaica raceways. From 1945 until around 1963, Solman spent his long commute making pencil studies of fellow straphangers, to which he added gouache at his studio. He considered the subway the best place to create figure studies, as his life subjects would effortlessly hold poses for long periods of time.
