Property from the Collection of David H. Murdock
Jean-François Raffaëlli
Admiral Dewey's Arch, New York
Live auction begins on:
June 2, 02:00 PM GMT
Estimate
20,000 - 30,000 USD
Bid
14,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Property from the Collection of David H. Murdock
Jean-François Raffaëlli
Paris 1850 - 1924
Admiral Dewey's Arch, New York
signed, dated and inscribed lower right: JF RAFFAËLLI 9bre 99 / New York
oil on canvas
canvas: 25 ½ by 32 ¼ in.; 64.8 by 81.9 cm
framed: 35 ⅜ by 41 ⅞ in.; 89.8 by 106.4 cm
Executed in 1899.
We thank Galerie Brame & Lorenceau for confirming the authenticity of this work, which will be included in their forthcoming Jean-François Raffaëlli digital catalogue raisonné currently in preparation.
Cyrus J. Lawrence (1833-1908), New York;
His estate sale, New York, American Art Galleries, 21 January 1910, lot 78;
Henry Chester;
Mrs. Henry Walters, New York;
Her estate sale, New York, Parke-Bernet Galleries, 1 December 1943, lot 1046;
Frank Schnittjer, New York (acquired at the above sale);
His sale, New York, Parke-Bernet Galleries, 18 October 1945, lot 56;
With Grand Central Art Galleries (acquired at the above sale);
Their sale, New York, Parke-Bernet Galleries, 10-11 December 1947, lot 179;
Nicholas de Koenigsberg, New York (acquired at the above sale);
His sale, New York, Parke-Bernet Galleries, 20 April 1950, lot lot 94;
Mr. and Mrs. William A. Dickey, Jr., Baltimore, Maryland (acquired at the above sale);
Mr. and Mrs. C. Edward Walter, Oxford, Maryland;
Their sale, New York, Sotheby Parke-Bernet, 20 January 1978, lot 154;
Private collection (acquired at the above sale);
With Berry-Hill Galleries, Inc., New York (by 1980);
With Stair Gallery, New York;
Where acquired by the present owner by descent.
Baltimore Museum of Art, From Ingres to Gauguin: French Nineteenth-Century Paintings Owned in Maryland, 1951, no. 145 (lent by Mr. William A. Dickey, Jr.);
New York, Stair’s Incurable Collector, The Belle Époque: Fashionable Life in Paris, London and New York 1870 - 1914, 1981.
F. N. Levy (ed.), “Paintings Sold at Auction, 1909-1910, Tabulated Report,” in American Art Annual, vol. VIII (1910–1911), p. 378;
From Ingres to Gauguin: French Nineteenth-Century Paintings Owned in Maryland, exhibition catalogue, Baltimore 1951, pp. 40–41, cat. no. 145, reproduced;
E. Bénézit, Dictionnaire des Peintres, Sculpteurs, Dessinateurs et Graveurs, vol. VIII, Paris 1976, p. 578;
World Collectors Annual, vol. XXX, Netherlands 1978, p. 63;
The Belle Époque: Fashionable Life in Paris, London and New York 1870–1914, exhibition catalogue, New York 1981, p. 24, reproduced in color;
W. H. Gerdts, Impressionist New York, New York 1994, pp. 82–84, reproduced pl. 58;
Carol Lowrey, A Legacy of Art: Paintings and Sculptures by Artist Life Members of the National Arts Club, New York and Manchester 2007, p. 82, reproduced fig. 30.