SEATED WOMAN ON BED, KNEE SOCKS is an original hand drawn (not digitally or photo reproduced) limited edition lithograph by the artist Raphael Soyer - Russian/American Social Realism Painter, 1899-1987. Printed using traditional hand lithography techniques on archival Arches printmaking paper 100% acid-free rag.
SEATED WOMAN ON BED, KNEE SOCKS is a sensitive, realist portrait drawing of a young woman wearing undergarments and knee high socks, sitting on a bed, her bosom bare, arms crossed on her lap. Very fine impression - intimate interior scene lithograph with the feel of a graphite drawing.
Print size - 30 x 22 inches unframed, excellent condition, hand signed in pencil by Raphael Soyer
Edition size - 300, plus proofs
Year published - 1979
Printer - J K Fine Art Editions Co., NY
RAPHAEL SOYER, painter, lithographer, and teacher, was born on December 15, 1899, in Borisoglebsk, Tombov, Russia. The Soyer family moved to New York 1912, settling in the Bronx. Raphael's twin brother, Moses, and their brother, Isaac, were also artists. His formal studies were at Cooper Union, the National Academy of Design, and the Art Students League. Raphael's first solo exhibition was in 1929.
He was a member of the National Academy of Design, American Academy of Arts and Letters, American Society of Painters, Sculptors and Gravers, Artists Congress, and the National Institute of Arts and Letters. Soyer taught at the Art Students League in New York. Working in oil painting or lithography printmaking, he was an American Scene artist who championed realism and his work portrays the daily life of New Yorkers.
Soyer's works are in the collections of the Phillips Collection, the Corcoran Gallery of Art, the Metropolitan Museum, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Smithsonian American Art Museum, the New York Public Library, the Fogg Art Museum at Harvard, the Asheville Art Museum, the Princeton University Art Museum, the Brooklyn Museum, and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.
Raphael Soyer died in New York on November 4, 1987.