JUNE 2024 SALE OF FINE ARTS AND COLLECTIBLES

A MOSES SOYER, RUSSIAN, AN OIL ON BOARD PORTRAIT OF A COUPLE

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Start price: $900

Estimated price: $1,200 - $1,500

Buyer's premium:

Moses Soyer (1899-1974), an oil on board painting titled "Portrait of a Couple". Signed lower right. Housed in a wooden frame. Has various auction labels on the verso.

Provenance: Leslie Hindman Auctioneers, 05/25/2016, lot 57.

Moses Soyer was a Borisoglebsk-born American realist painter. He studied art at Cooper Union, and later at the National Academy of Design. He had his first solo exhibition in 1926 and began teaching art the following year at the Contemporary Art School and The New School. Soyer’s work is in the collections of many museums, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Museum of Modern Art, the Smithsonian American Art Museum, and the Philadelphia Museum of Art.

18 x 24 in., (45.8 x 61 cm.)

Condition: Perfect.