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RAPHAEL SOYER Seated Model in the Studio.
Oil on canvas, circa 1960. 358x255 mm; 14x10 inches. Signed in oil, lower right recto.
Provenance: Private collection Provincetown, Massachusetts; thence by descent to current owner, private collection, New Jersey.
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 realist painters of the 20th century.
