02 paintings, The amorous game, Hayv Kahraman's Persian Couple 1 & 2, with Footnotes #96

Hayv Kahraman

Persian Couple 2, c. 2009

Oil on linen

106.7 by 172.7 cm. 42 by 68 in.

Private collection

Sold for 52,920 GBP in October 2022

Hayv Kahraman (American/Iraqi, born 1981)

Persian Couple 1, c. 2009

Paintings, Oil on linen

68 x 42 in. (172.7 x 106.7 cm.)

Private collection

Hayv Kahraman is an Iraqi artist born in 1981. At the age of 11, her family left Baghdad during the Gulf War and settled in Sweden for several years, where her status of refugee became a catalytic experience for her artistic practice. Having studied graphic design at the Accademia di Arte e Design di Firenze, Italy, Kahraman uses a variety of media including sculpture, drawing and painting to address difficult issues relative to gender inequalities, war and the migrant experience. Channeling refined aesthetics inspired from Islamic arts, Art Nouveau and Japanese paintings to confront the viewer with controversial scenes, the artist engages with the notion of femininity in Middle Eastern cultures. Her approach to gender roles and female identity encapsulates how women are persecuted in their own culture through systematic submission to the male gaze, physicality and politics. More on Hayv Kahraman

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01 painting, The amorous game, Moses Soyer's Couple, with Footnotes, #90

Moses Soyer

Couple, c. 1938

Oil on panel

Height: 14 inches / 35.56 cm, Width: 10.5 inches / 26.67 cm

Private collection

Moses Soyer (December 25, 1899 – September 3, 1974) was an American social realist painter.

Soyer married in 1922 to Ida Chassne, a dancer. Together they had one son, David Soyer. Dancers were a recurring subject in his paintings.

Soyer studied art in New York with his twin Raphael, first at Cooper Union, and continued his studied at National Academy of Design. He diverged from his twin and attended Educational Alliance. And later studying at the Ferrer Art School, where he studied under the Ashcan painters Robert Henri and George Bellows.

He had his first solo exhibition in 1926 and began teaching art the following year at the Contemporary Art School and The New School.

He was an artist of the Great Depression, and during the 1930s, Moses and his brother Raphael engaged in Social Realism, demonstrating empathy with the struggles of the working class. In 1939, the twins worked together with the Works Project Administration, Federal Art Project (WPA-FAP) mural at the Kingsessing Station post office in Philadelphia. More on Moses Soyer

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