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Artist: RAPHAEL SOYER (Russian-American, 1899 - 1997)
Title: \"Two Sisters of Union Square\" circa 1964
Medium: Original Color Copper-plate Drypoint printed in 3 colors using sepia inks on Rives BFK paper
Signature: Hand Signed by the Artist in pencil, LR
Edition: Limited Edition of 250 impressions; this one numbered \"106/250\" in pencil, LL
Size: 18 1/2 x 15 1/8 inches (paper)
Printer: The Artist
Publisher: Associated American Artists, NY
Reference: Cole no. 74
Provenance: Hatay Stratton Fine Art, Northampton, Massachusettes
About the Artist: Raphael Soyer (December 25, 1899 – November 4, 1987) was aRussian-born American painter, draftsman, and printmaker. Soyer was referred to as an American scenepainter. He is identified as a Social Realist because of his interest in menand women viewed in contemporary settings which included the streets, subways,salons and artists\' studios of New York City. He also wrote several books onhis life and art. His brothers MosesSoyer and Isaac Soyer were also painters.Soyer\'s teaching career began at the John Reed Club, New York, in 1930and included stints at the Art Students League, the New School for SocialResearch and the National Academy. His work is in numerous museums includingthe Museum of Modern Art; The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.; FoggArt Museum, Harvard University; The Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C.; TheNew York Public Library, New York; Tel Aviv Museum, Israel; Uffizi Gallery,Florence, Italy and Los Angeles County Museum, California.[8] Renowned artcollector Victor Ganz started collecting art in his teenage years with thepurchases of watercolors by Louis Eilshemius and Jules Pascin and an oilpainting by Raphael Soyer. Soyer deeplyadmired fellow American artist Thomas Eakins.Among Soyer\'s portrait subjects were artists and writers who were hisfriends; these included Allen Ginsberg, Arshile Gorky, Chaim Gross, GitelSteed, Edward Hopper, and Steve Poleskie. In 1967 the Whitney Museum ofAmerican Art exhibited a retrospective of his work.
