The following description for has been prepared entirely by the current owner, Roberts S. Fastov, Esq., and, at the collector’s request, has not been edited by Sloans & Kenyon

Note 1) Per the Askart.com Soyer biography, in part: “Dedicated to art expression with social-realist themes of the Depression Era in America, Moses Soyer was born in Czarist Russia in 1899, and was one of three artistic brothers, the others being Raphael and Isaac. Raphael Soyer was Moses' identical twin. Later in his career, Moses Soyer turned to the depiction of female figures, especially ballet dancers….The Depression, in fact, set the mood for most of Soyer's art expression. The Works Project Administration provided him with work as well as the fellowship of other artists, but the era itself provided the social sentiments which permeate most of Soyer's work. Using some of the techniques of his favorite artists, such as Van Rijn Rembrandt and Gustave Courbet, he portrayed his subjects in the perseverance of hard work or in the uncertainty of unemployment….His paintings remained popular throughout his life. Soyer died in 1974.” Askart.com lists 49 American museums that hold Soyer works in their collections, including many major American museums, some of which are: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Historical Society, Yeshiva Art Museum Whitney Museum of Art and Brooklyn Museum, all of New York City, NY; Smithsonian National Museum of American Art; Phillips Collection and National Gallery of Art, all of Washington, DC; San Diego Museum; Crocker Art Museum (Sacramento), Fresno Museum of Art and Los Angeles County Museum of Art, all of California; Birmingham Museum of Art (Alabama); Butler Institute of American Art (Youngstown, Ohio); Denver Art Museum (Colorado); North Carolina Museum of Art (Raleigh); Oklahoma City Museum of Art (Oklahoma); Phoenix Art Museum (Arizona); Portland Art Museum (Oregon); Telfair Museum of Art (Savannah, Georgia); The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art (Kansas City, Missouri); Newark Museum (New Jersey); Cheekwood Museum of Art & Botanical Garden (Nashville, Tennessee) and 14 major university collections

Note 2) The foregoing considerations and the following auction records regarding sales warrant the conclusion that the presale estimate of $1,000-$1,500 is reasonable and justifiable. The highest auction price ever paid for a Soyer painting was The Costume Makers Signed. Oil on canvas. 42 in. x 36 in. which sold for $40,625 on 09/28/2012 at Sotheby’s, NY. The illustration for this auction record is copyright restricted, as it is licensed by VAGA, New York, NY. Inasmuch as all of the other Soyer illustrations are so restricted, the reader is referred to Askart.com on the internet, if the $40,625 price paid on 9/28/20012 is not sufficient to cause the reader to determine that the presale estimate of $1,000-$1,500 is reasonable and justifiable.