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2020年11月20日 开拍 / 2020年11月19日 截止委托
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Description JEAN-FRAN?OIS RAFFA?LLI LE PROVINCIAL?à PARIS? signed lower right:?J.F. RAFFA?LLI. oil, charcoal and watercolor on?board laid down on panel panel: 20 by 26 in.; 50.8 by 66 cm We would like to thank Brame & Lorenceau for confirming the authenticity of this work which will be included in its digital catalogue critique on the artist now in preparation. Condition Report To request a condition report for this lot, please contact?Dominick.Diprima@sothebys.com?. Literature A. Alexandre, Jean-Fran?ois Raffa?lli, Paris, 1909, p. 95, reproduced Provenance M. Imberti Colonel C. Michael Paul, Palm Beach By whom sold ("Property from the?Estate of Colonel C. Michael Paul, Palm Beach, Florida"),?New York, Sotheby’s, 13 February 1985, lot 109 There?acquired Notes Jean-Fran?ois Raffa?lli was a unique voice in the Paris art establishment in the late nineteenth?century. During his lifetime he was critically acclaimed at the? Salon where, like Edouard Manet, he tenaciously sought inclusion, but he also participated in the landmark Impressionist exhibitions of 1880 and 1881. Raffa?lli trained in the studio of Jean-Léon Gér?me but also befriended Edgar Degas, who would become an ardent supporter. Recognized as an exquisite draftsman, he invented a novel implement called a? batonnet Raffa?lli, an oil stick that yielded a medium between oil and pastel. Yet in spite of all of these accomplishments, Raffa?lli’s name has all but disappeared from the art historical canon. After an early start depicting? fête galante?subjects reminiscent of the work of Jean-Louis-Ernest Meissonier, Raffa?lli’s career took a turn in 1877 when his submission to the? Salon,? The Family of Jean-le-Boiteux, Peasants of Plougasnou-Finistère,was admired for its creativity and originality by the well-known critic Edmond Duranty. It was at this auspicious moment that Raffa?lli met Edgar Degas.?Unlike most of the “pure” Impressionists of the 1870s, Degas and Raffa?lli shared a predilection for drawing, which may well have been the basis for the sympathetic relationship between the two artists. In 1879, exhausted and verging on nervous collapse, Raffa?lli left Paris and settled in the suburb of Asnières. With its incessantly spewing smokestacks, this desolate region provided the backdrop for Raffa?lli’s paintings from this period, its inhabitants his new protagonists.There, among the faces and expressions of its inhabitants —?retired workmen, rag pickers, beggars, garlic sellers and chimney sweepers —?Raffa?lli found his inspiration and the vehicle to reveal what he defined as man’s distinctive trait: character, which, according to the artist’s treaty on? caractérisme?was?“the physiological and psychological constitution of man…character is man’s distinctive trait” (J.F. Raffa?lli, “Etude des mouvements de l’art moderne et du beau caractériste”,? Catalogue illustré des oeuvres de J.F. Raffa?lli? exposés 28 bis, Avenue de l’Opéra, Paris, 1884, p.66-67).?Commenting to Edmond de Goncourt, Raffa?lli confessed that, despite traveling throughout Europe and Africa, his search for the essence of the human personality led him to his own backyard in Asnières?(Edmond and Jules de Goncourt,”16 February 1888,”? Journal: memoires de la vie littéraire, ed. Robert Ricatte, Paris, 1956, vol. III, pp. 755-6).? The artist’s exploration of? caractérisme?was additionally influenced by the writings?of the Goncourts, Victor Hugo, Honoré de ?Balzac and especially émile?Zola, and his connection to the literary world of Paris resulted in? Les Types de Paris, an extensively illustrated album of stories by the most prominent Realist and Naturalist writers in Paris,?published in 1889.?Albert Wolfe, the art critic for? Le Figaro, commented in his introduction for? Les Types de Paris?that Raffa?lli was indeed a modern painter with new ideas. But of even greater significance, he was human (Albert Wolff, “Jean Fran?ois Raffa?lli,”? Les Types de Paris, Paris, 1889, p. 6). In the present work, and the two following, Raffa?lli depicts soldiers, prostitutes, and modest men whose hard work is balanced by the pleasure and satisfaction afforded by a few moments in a bar or restaurant. The tonal shades of the Le provincial à Paris and La forte chanteuse reinforce the smoky interiors of the artist’s local haunts, and the hazy moral decisions made within them. Filled with moments of humor, defiance and resilience, these works allow?Raffa?lli to say much about his subjects by saying little, and?thereby revealing the subject’scharacter; the artist has turned the intangible into the tangible.

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