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Lot 178

Raphael Soyer
(1899-1987)
Profile of a Young Woman

26 September – 7 October 2025, 12:00 EDT
Skinner Marlborough, Massachusetts

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Raphael Soyer (1899-1987)

Profile of a Young Woman
signed 'RAPHAEL SOYER' (lower right); with a label from The Galleries of Associated American Artists, New York (affixed to the frame)
oil on canvas
10 x 8 in. (25.4 x 20.3 cm)

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Raphael Soyer (born Raphael Schoar) was born in Russia to a Hebrew scholar father and an embroiderer mother. The Soyers emigrated to the United States in 1912 and settled in the Bronx, New York. Soyer began his artistic training soon after. Over his career, his style remained wonderfully fluid in response to his environment, social circumstances, and reaction to social and political events. While at the Art Students League of New York in the 1920s, Soyer's work aligned most with the Ashcan School in its depictions of gritty urban subjects and everyday life. Later, he would adopt a focus on figural depictions, such as nudes, portraits, self portraits, and New York cityscapes, that would persist throughout his career. In the 1930s, Soyer's awareness of the hardships of the Great Depression is reflected in his new embrace of Social Realism, particularly influenced by Thomas Eakins.

Raphael Soyer's work is held in numerous large museum collections including the National Gallery of Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the Whitney Museum of American Art.

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