Feb 04, 2021 - Sale 2557

Sale 2557 - Lot 199

Price Realized: $ 2,125
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,000 - $ 1,500

RAPHAEL SOYER (1899-1987)


Untitled.
Oil on jute canvas. 279x303 mm; 11x13 inches. Signed, Raphael Soyer, lower right.

Provenance: The Collection of Gladys and Tully Filmus; Thence by descent to the current owner.

The Graphic Arts Division of the WPA created print workshops. Raphael used these facilities and created prints he exhibited in the Fourteenth Municipal Art Committee Exhibition., October 21 - November 8, 1936. As an early participant in the programs, Soyer played a role in calling for the establishment of the American Artists' Congress. He was awarded two mural projects: In 1936 he completed two murals for Queens Borough Public Library, Queens, New York; Working along side Moses, the Soyer brothers painted two murals for the Kingsessing Station Post Office, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1939. These murals were later moved to the Philadelphia Metro District Facility, and are no longer on public view.