Jun 15, 2017 - Sale 2452

Sale 2452 - Lot 200

Price Realized: $ 4,000
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 3,000 - $ 5,000
RAPHAEL SOYER
Collection of approximately 40 drawings.

Sketchbook with approximately 40 drawings in pencil, pen and ink and/or wash, most still bound (but several sheets loose). Approximately 355x243 mm; 14x9 1/2 inches (sheets). Each sheet signed or initialed, with some identifying the model, in pencil or pen and ink. Mainly female nude studies and male portraits.

Ex-collection the estate of Alfredo Valente, New York, the famed photographer and collector who amassed a large body of Soyer's work. With 5 short letters written from Soyer to Valente and a portrait study of Valente.