Raphael Soyer was a Russian American painter. He was a Social Realist painter who lived in NYC. He studied art at Cooper Union alongside his twin brother, Moses. He was associated with the Fourteenth Street School of painters and painted mostly female nudes, portraits, and the people of NY. The model for the untitled work in the gallery collection is the same model as the painting by his brother, Moses, also in the gallery collection. This painting came to the gallery from Hill Auction Gallery in Florida.