Soyer, Raphael. UNTITLED - PROFILE OF PARTLY DRAPED MODEL WITH ARMS FOLDED]. Lithograph, 1937. Not in Cole. 9 3/4 x 9 7/8 inches; 248 x 251 mm. Signed in pencil, lower right, and signed and copyrighted "1937" in the stone. This print has a very strong relationship to "Toward the Light," Cole 35, which Cole and Gettings date to 1935. It shows the same model, in the same drapery, though here with her hair down, facing the same light (here the window is not shown, but the light is shown on the model's face and arms). Soyer, quoted by Gettings, claims there was no preparatory drawing for "towards the light," that it was done directly on the stone, yet it seems obvious that the two works were done at the same time. In excellent condition. Rare.
