Great 1970 Raphael Soyer Original Pencil Signed Lithograph

Description: Entitled "Young Girl" this 1961 lithograph is by the celebrated American Scene painter and printmaker Raphael Soyer (1899-1987) famous for his intimate portrayals over many decades of the lives and people near his Union Square studio in New York City. Measuring approx. 14" x 10" image, 17" x 13" full sheet, it is signed in pencil lower right,from an edition of 200 published by Associated American Artists. Never framed, it is in excellent condition on cream wove paper with full margins and no holes, tears, or stains with original mat. Catalogue Raisonne: Gettings #83. An example of this print is in the collection of the Smithsonian American Art Museum, the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, and the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco Works by this artist can be found in the collections of many other major museums including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Museum of Modern Art, The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; National Gallery of Art, etc.Raphael Soyer was born in 1899 in Tombov, Russia, later settling with his family in New York Raphael enrolled in the National Academy of Design and afterwards, studied with Guy Pene du Bois at the Art Students League. Du Bois encouraged him to paint what he knew, his family and environment, which Soyer took to heart, rejecting the strict academic style of the time for a more personal style.With the endorsement of du Bois, Soyer brought his paintings to the Daniel Gallery, and soon had his first solo exhibition there in 1929, the year of the stock marketcrash. Incredibly, some sales were made, and the exhibition was reviewed favorably. During this year, Soyer made the commitment to give up his day job, rent a studio on the lower East Side, and paint full-time. As the suffering economy began to impact people’s lives, Raphael Soyer portrayed the unemployed as subjects in his work. As he made these genre paintings, he also painted the intimate portraits and self-portraits that he would continue for the next fifty years.As his vision and reputation grew, Soyer showed regularly in the large annual and biennial American exhibitions of the Whitney Museum, The Carnegie Institute, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Corcoran Gallery of Art, the National Academy of Design and the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts. His work is now in the public collections of these institutions, and also in many others major collections, such as Bezalel National Museum, Jerusalem, Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio, National Collections of Fine Arts, Washington D.C., Philadelphia Museum of Fine Art, The Phillips Collection, Washington D.C., Museum of Modern Art, New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, The Jewish Museum, New York, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington D.C., and Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Price: 125 USD

Location: Avon, Connecticut

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