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RAPHAEL SOYER (1899-1987)
Self-Portrait. Lithograph. 343x280 mm; 13 1/2x11 inches, full margins. Signed and numbered 94/100 in pencil, lower margin. Printed by Burr Miller, New York. A very good impression of this scarce lithograph. Gettings 110.
According to a statement by Soyer, published in the Gettings catalogue raisonné of his printed work, he noted, "This is the last self-portrait I did on stone. It is one of my favorite lithographs."
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 (1884-1958) 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 1920s, he cemented his reputation among the top American realist artists of the 20th century.
