Raphael Soyer: Paintings and Drawings
signed first edition hardcover
1960 · New York
by GUTMAN, Walter K.
New York: Shorewood, 1960. hardcover. very good. SOYER, Raphael. Preface by Jerome Klein. Comments on Art by Raphael Soyer. 135 illustrations, including 15 color plates. 192pp. Short 4to, gray cloth with black lettering (spine ends slightly frayed). New York: Shorewood Publishing in association with Rabin & Krueger Gallery, (1960). First edition. A very good copy. A nice, but not uncommon monograph of the Russian-born New York painter, known as a spokesman for realism in the 20th century. This copy has a full-page original ink drawing by Soyer inside the front cover. The drawing entitled "some family of constitutional inadequates" depicts a group of six people standing naked. The drawing is inscribed to the journalist Leonard Lyons and family. (Inventory #: 167840)