Kitty Sewing

Details

JOSEPH RAPHAEL (1869-1950)
Kitty Sewing
signed and dated 'Jos Raphael 16' (lower left)
oil on canvas
25 x 30 in. (63.5 x 76.2 cm.)
Painted in 1916

Provenance

Albert M. Bender, San Francisco.
Gift from the above to the present owner, 1926.

Literature

M. Simpson, S. Mills and J. Saville, The American Canvas, New York, 1989, pp. 14-15, fig. 3 (illustrated).
G.C. Sirna, In Praise of the Needlewoman: Embroiderers, Knitters, Lacemakers, and Weavers in Art, New York, 2006, pp. 168-169 (illustrated).

Further details

The present work is #P-171 in the unpublished Joseph Raphael Catalogue Raisonné, compiled by Dr. Phyllis Hattis and Johanna Raphael Sibbett. We wish to thank Dr. Hattis for her kind assistance with this lot.

Conditions of sale

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Ensayo del lote

Born in Jackson, California, in 1869, Joseph Raphael initially studied at the San Francisco School of Design before settling in Europe for further training. After attending the Académie Julian in Paris, he split his time between France and Laren, an artist colony near Amsterdam until, upon the occasion of his marriage, he moved to Belgium. The present work is characteristic of Raphael's idiosyncratic style of Impressionism, dominated by a heavy impasto and bright, mosaic-like coloration.

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