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Raphael Soyer - Solitaire (1934)

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Raphael Soyer The Cycle of Life

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Raphael Soyer - Self portrait

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Self-Portrait with Model, c. 1945. Raphael Soyer, 1899-1987. Oil on canvas.

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[oldsardens]

Raphael Soyer - Portrait of Fran

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Picked up a nice etching by American, WPA artist Raphael Soyer (1933-1989) at a garage sale this morning.

Sorry for the poor photograph, it is under glass.

“Protected” was created in an edition of 250 in 1938.

It is in the collection of most major museums including the Smithsonian and the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Once dubbed the “East Side Degas,” Russian-Jewish émigré and social-realist painter Raphael Soyer depicted ordinary men and women in contemporary settings. While studying at the Art Students League of New York under Guy Pène du Bois, he was influenced by the Ashcan School’s faithful representations of daily life in New York City’s poorer corners. Soyer rejected abstract art, stating, “I choose to be a realist and a humanist in art.” In sympathetic renderings of the unemployed during and after the great economic crash of 1929, many of Soyer’s paintings came to embody the Depression, as in the drawn, weary face and soft eyes that gaze out of Portrait of Walter Broe (1932). Soyer also painted women in large numbers and various forms throughout his career, including nudes, shop-girls, prostitutes, and pedestrians, displaying a love for and fascination with the manifold faces of humanity. WIKI

Moses and Raphael Soyer were identical twin brothers. Born in Russia, they immigrated with their family to America in 1913. They both studied art in New York, and went on to become successful figurative painters. During the 1930s, the brothers became involved with the Works Progress Administration and worked together on several large projects, including a mural for the Kingsessing Station Post Office in Philadelphia. Both Raphael and Moses were influenced by the Depression and painted many realistic scenes that expressed their concern for America’s poor and unemployed citizens. SMITHSONIAN

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Raphael Soyer - Reclining Nude

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Raphael Soyer, Roomates, 1937, oil on canvas

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Raphael Zalman Soyer and his model

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Raphael Soyer - Girl in a red hat (ca. 1940)

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[justineportraits]

Raphael Soyer Subway Platform 1946

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Self portrait - 1940, by Raphael Soyer

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[amongthecypresses]

Raphael Soyer

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[oldsardens]

Raphael Soyer - A Girl With Black Hair

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Alfred Valente, Raphael Soyer, c. 1940,

#raphael soyer #portrait #alfred valente