Chegodaev, Andrei Dmitrievich (1905 - 1994) Rafael´ Soier. M., Sovetskii khudozhnik, [1968] 9 p., 125 plates in b/w and color. €175,00
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Small 4 to, publisher´s binding, dust jacket. VERY GOOD. Minor tears of dust jacket.

INSCRIBED BY RAFAEL SOYER TO A NEW YORK BOOK DEALER AND PUBLISHER IN BROWN INK and dated '1984, New York'.

The only album on Rafael Soyer ever published in the USSR.The book was printed at the experimental printing shop of VNIIPP.

Raphael Soyer (December 25, 1899 – November 4, 1987) was a Russian-born American painter, draftsman, and printmaker. Soyer was referred to as an American scene painter. He is identified as a Social Realist because of his interest in men and women viewed in contemporary settings which included the streets, subways, salons and artists' studios of New York City, although he avoided subjects that were particularly critical of society. He also wrote several books on his life and art. His brothers Moses Soyer and Isaac Soyer were also painters.

Raphael pursued his art education at the free schools of the Cooper Union where he met Chaim Gross, who became a lifelong friend from that time. He continued his studies at the National Academy of Design and, subsequently, at the Art Students League of New York. While there, he studied with Guy Pene du Bois and Boardman Robinson, taking up the gritty urban subjects of the Ashcan school. After his formal education ended, Soyer became associated with the Fourteenth Street School of painters that included Reginald Marsh, Isabel Bishop, Kenneth Hayes Miller, Peggy Bacon and, his teacher, Guy Pene du Bois. Soyer persistently investigated a number of themes—female nudes, portraits of friends and family, New York and, especially, its people—in his paintings, drawings, watercolors and prints. He was adamant in his belief in representational art and strongly opposed the dominant force of abstract art during late 1940s and early 1950s. Defending his position, he stated: 'I choose to be a realist and a humanist in art.' He was an artist of the Great Depression. - Adapted from Wikipedia.
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