Provenance
[With] The Moskowitz Gallery, Los Angeles, California.
Sale, Sotheby Park Bernet, Los Angeles, California, 1982, lot 408.
Acquired by the late owners from the above.

Exhibited
Los Angeles, California, Loyola Marymount University, Laband Art Gallery, The Spirit of the City: American Urban Paintings, Prints, and Drawings, 1900-1952, February 18-April 7, 1986.

Literature
S. Muchnic, "City Spirit: N.Y. Comes To Loyola," Los Angeles Times, March 10, 1986, part VI, p. 1, illustrated.

According to a letter written by Raphael Soyer, the present work depicts Charlotte Trowbridge who was an artist and a staff member of the Museum of Modern Art in New York (unpublished letter, n.d.). Trowbridge worked as an installer during her time at MoMA and is credited for her work on the exhibition Modern Handmade Jewelry that ran from September 17 through November 17, 1946. She also had her work shown at MoMA in the exhibition World of Illusion: Elements of Stage Design that ran from October 14, 1947 through January 4, 1948.

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Raphael Soyer(1881-1961)Charlotte 16 x 10in (40.6 x 25.4cm)

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