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Joseph Morris RAPHAEL (United States / 1869-1950)
Field of F…
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Joseph Morris RAPHAEL (United States / 1869-1950)
Field of F…
See original version (French)
Estimate €6,000 - €8,000
Voluntary lot
Description
Joseph Morris RAPHAEL (United States / 1869-1950)
Field of Flowers near Uccle, ca. 1915
Oil on paper laid down on original cardboard
Signed 'JOS. RAPHAEL' (lower right)
33.5 x 42 cm
Provenance :
- Sale, Maître Geoffroy, Royan, 2 December 2022, lot 349.
- Acquired during this sale by the current owner.
Born and died in California, but spending most of his life in Europe between 1903 and the early 1930s, Joseph Morris Raphael is a UFO who is still regarded today as the greatest Californian post-impressionist painter Europe has ever produced.
After arriving in Paris from the United States in 1903 as a pupil of Jean-Paul Laurens at the Académie Julian, Joseph Raphael soon moved to the area around Uccle in Belgium and became associated with the Laren School in the Netherlands. Initially a naturalist, Joseph Raphael discovered the work of Van Gogh through his fellow Fauvist Jan Sluijters.
An isolated figure, but well aware of events in the artistic avant-garde, Joseph Raphael quickly changed his painting from the conventional naturalist to a post-divisionism tinged with radical and personal Fauvism. Raphael sublimated the fields of flowers around Uccle in Belgium and Noordwijk in the Netherlands in the years 1910-15, being particularly influenced by Van Gogh.
With the advent of the 1930s, Joseph Raphael returned to his native California. He has since become known as one of the greatest American post-impressionist painters. The work presented here is one of the best examples of the artist's great 'post-Fauvist' period of the 1910s.
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