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Another work of great interest is the "Flower Vendor" by Raphael Soyer. It gives a scene of typical New York types, with emphasis on facial expressions and characteristic gestures and dress. Every face is carefully modeled, much attention being paid to individual features. An arresting point in the painting is the incongruity of the shabbily dressed man holding clumsily the luxurious and fragile flowers, whose bright red contrast strongly with the dingy black and brown of his dress. This red and the red of the handkerchief in his pocket put life into the scene and bring the whole into focus...