Jun 30, 2022 - Sale 2611

Sale 2611 - Lot 278

Price Realized: $ 2,375
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 2,000 - $ 3,000
RAPHAEL SOYER
Seated Nude.

Oil on canvas, circa 1940. 385x305 mm; 15 1/4x12 1/4 inches. Signed in oil, lower left recto.

Provenance: Private collection, Chicago.

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.