Waiting for the Audition
c. 1950
Painter, American, born Russia, 1899 - 1987
Artwork overview
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Medium
oil on canvas
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Credit Line
Corcoran Collection (Museum Purchase, William A. Clark Fund)
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Dimensions
overall: 76.2 × 61.6 cm (30 × 24 1/4 in.)
framed: 97.47 × 82.23 × 4.76 cm (38 3/8 × 32 3/8 × 1 7/8 in.) -
Accession
2015.19.75
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Acquired March 1951 from the artist by the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington;[1] acquired 2015 by the National Gallery of Art.
[1] The painting received the W.A. Clark First Prize at the 22nd Corcoran Biennial exhibition in 1951.
Associated Names
Exhibition History
1951
Twenty-Second Biennial Exhibition of Contemporary American Oil Paintings, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, 1 April - 13 May 1951.
Circulating Corcoran Biennial Exhibition, American Federation of Arts touring exhibition, 19 October 1951 - 6 June 1952.
1956
Art and the Theatre, Watkins Museum, American University, Washington, 8 April - 13 May 1956.
1957
Twenty-fifth Biennial Exhibition of Contemporary American Oil Paintings, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington; Toledo Museum of Art, 1957, no. 22.
1983
Jewish Life in America, Meridian House International, Washington, 13 June - 19 August 1983.
2004
Figuratively Speaking: The Human Form in American Art, 1770-1950, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, 20 November 2004 - 7 August 2005, unpublished checklist.
2013
Recent Acquisitions: American Art from the Johns Collection, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 2013-2014.
Bibliography
1966
Phillips, Dorothy W. A Catalogue of the Collection of American Paintings in The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Vol. 1: Painters born before 1850. Washington, 1966: 160-162.
1998
Simmons, Linda, et al. The Forty-fifth Biennial: The Corcoran Collects, 1907-1998. Exh. cat. Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, 1998: 115.
2004
Baskind, Samantha. Raphael Soyer and the Search for Modern Jewish Art. Chapel Hill, NC, 2004: 125.
2011
Strong, Lisa. "Raphael Soyer, A Railroad Station Waiting Room." In Corcoran Gallery of Art: American Paintings to 1945. Edited by Sarah Cash. Washington, 2011: 251, repro.
Inscriptions
lower right: Raphael Soyer
Wikidata ID
Q46635850