Mar 06, 2025 - Sale 2696

Sale 2696 - Lot 116

Price Realized: $ 4,750
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 2,000 - $ 3,000
RAPHAEL SOYER (1899 - 1987)
Pregnant Woman.

Oil on board, circa 1950. 302x225 mm;12x8¾ inches. Signed lower right.

Provenance
Private collection, New York.

Additional Details

Raphael Soyer was born in Russia and immigrated to New York at the age of twelve. He studied at Cooper Union, the National Academy of Design and with Guy Pène du Bois at the Art Students League. He is known as a Social Realist, depicting the daily struggles of those living in New York City. His chosen subject matter became especially poignant at the onset of the Great Depression, and, after he began to exhibit his work in the late 1920's, he cemented his reputation among the top realist painters of the 20th century.