Description Pencil signed lower right with edition lower left margin: Raphael Soyer, 7/50.
Sight: H: 14 5/8; W: 10 1/8 inches.
Frame: H: 20 3/4; W: 16 1/4 inches.
Prov: NYC Print Fair
Condition: Fine.
Shipping weight: 5 lbs
Biography from the Archives of askART
?MEMBER: The Hamptons Bays Art Colony. Established before the start of WW II by fellow fauvist, David D. Burliuk, it was a summer art colony away from the rat race of nearby New York City.
Burliuk bought a small house in early 1941 in a quiet area in the East End still easily accessible to New York City. Soon Nicolai Cikovsky joined him as did other Russian ??migr??s, brothers Raphael and Moses Soyer. Moses bought a house on the same street, Squiretown Road, while his brother Raphael Soyer and Cikovsky took residences in North Sea.
Burliuk led the group because he was the oldest member and because his property included a gallery for all. Consequently the group congregated at Burliuk's place; it became their salon.
A photo of the Hamptons Bays Art Colony members posing (Copyright 2008 The New York Times Company) had this caption:? "Standing, from left, in 1952, Nat Werner, Moses Soyer, David Burliuk and George Constant; in front, Raphael Soyer, left, and Nicolai Cikovsky."