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Masterworks from the Collection: 50th Anniversary Exhibition

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Artist(s): Raphael Soyer (Borisoglebsk, Russia, Dec 25, 1899 - Nov 4, 1987, New York, NY)
Title: Self Portrait
Date: 1933
Dimensions: 13 1/4 in. x 9 3/4 in. (33.66 cm x 24.77 cm)
Medium: lithograph on wove paper
Credit Line: Addison Gallery of American Art, Phillips Academy, Andover, MA, museum purchase, 1935.54

Object Information

Soyer's most frequent model was himself. His series of self-portraits records his own physiognomic changes from youth to old age. Inthe 1933lithographic Self­ Portrait, one sees the artist's fascination with light as an aesthetic element. Seyer utilized the medium's capacity to render strong contrasts of light and dark, as well as a range of gray tones in order to solidly model three-dimensional form. Inthis composition, the significance of being an artist to Seyer's identity is emphasized by the depiction of a canvas at the left. It is probable that after Seyer drew his Self-Portrait onto a lithographic stone, it was printed by Jack Friedland, who printed most of Seyer's lithographs in the 1920s and early 1930s.

Exhibition History

This object was included in the following exhibitions:

Design in Painting and Sculpture, Addison Gallery of American Art, 1/5/1938 - 2/13/1938
Masterworks from the Collection: 50th Anniversary Exhibition, Addison Gallery of American Art, 5/9/1981 - 6/14/1981
Heads II: Heads: an exhibit which explores some of the many ways the human head , Addison Gallery of American Art, 9/18/1981 - 10/25/1981
Faces of the Addison: Portraits from the Collection, Addison Gallery of American Art, 4/23/1994 - 7/31/1994

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