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Catalogue
- Year
- 1935
- Medium
- Lithograph
- Dimensions
- composition: 12 1/8 × 17 5/8" (30.8 × 44.8 cm); sheet: 14 × 19 3/16" (35.6 × 48.8 cm)
- Collection
- Museum of Modern Art
- Artist
- Raphael Soyer
Artist

Printmaking
Raphael Soyer was an American painter known for his figurative work depicting urban life and social realism in the early and mid-twentieth century. Working primarily in oil on canvas, he portrayed working-class subjects, street scenes, and interior domestic moments with a restrained palette and careful attention to light and psychological presence. His practice engaged with the social concerns of Depression-era America without overt political rhetoric.
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1971 · Color lithograph from zinc plates on ivory wove paper
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1969 · Color lithograph on white wove paper
Woman with Plant, from Memories
1969 · Lithograph on ivory Japanese paper
Title Page from Memories
1969 · Letterpress on white wove paper
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Verified by WattsOS- Artist
- Raphael Soyer
- Year
- 1935
- Medium
- Lithograph
- Dimensions
- composition: 12 1/8 × 17 5/8" (30.8 × 44.8 cm); sheet: 14 × 19 3/16" (35.6 × 48.8 cm)
- Watts ID
- WW-1935-M060318
Source
- Collection
- Museum of Modern Art
- Source
- moma
- Reference
- View at source
- Status
- verified





