JUNE 2024 SALE OF FINE ARTS AND COLLECTIBLES

A MOSES SOYER, RUSSIAN, OIL ON CANVAS PORTRAIT OF A SEATED FEMALE NUDE

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Start price: $1,000

Estimated price: $1,300 - $1,600

Buyer's premium:

Moses Soyer (1899-1974), an oil on canvas painting depicting a nude woman seated in an artist’s studio. Signed lower right. Housed in a wooden frame.

Provenance: Leslie Hindman Auctioneers, 05/24/2018, lot 90.

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.

23 3/4 x 19 1/2 in., (60.5 x 49.5 cm.)

Condition: The painting is in very good condition.