Jean-François RAFFAËLLI (1850-1924) - Lot 150

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Jean-François RAFFAËLLI (1850-1924) - Lot 150
Jean-François RAFFAËLLI (1850-1924) Busy Boulevard in Springtime, Paris. Oil on canvas, signed lower right. 64,5 x 81 cm. Provenance: Alfred Reginald Allen Collection, USA. Richard Green Gallery, London. Private collection, Paris, acquired from the above in 1981. "I love cities, these agglomerations of ancient monuments and human dwellings, these concentrations of terrible crowds, which so often dissolve into innocent strolls. I love my fellow human beings, who, like me, are agitated in this melee, with the same passions, and who are in search of the same uncertain happiness. () I thrilled to all the pains and joys that always animate this people of bourgeois, workers, women, children, miserable people dedicated to the sorrow of each day, who proudly accept their fate. Have I put, without a program, and with all my ardor as a man, and as a human being, a little of this thrill in the works of artists, from the black fields of the suburbs to the shady and flowery avenues of the city? This is the ambition that I confess here and which has replaced, as brightly, as burning, the flame of enthusiasm of youth. "J.-F. Raffaelli, Paris, June 10, 1909 (extract from the preface to the exhibition Galeries Georges Petit in 1909). In 1895, Jean-François Raffaëlli made the first of his two trips to America, where he was invited by the American Art Association to the opening of a large exhibition of his works and to give a lecture. The success was such that he stayed five months on the other side of the Atlantic and gave fourteen lectures, in English, learned for the occasion ! During his second trip in 1899, Raffaëlli participated in an international jury at the invitation of the Carnegie Institute. The artist took the opportunity to present some paintings, drawings and engravings at the Durand-Ruel Galleries in New York in December, an exhibition which then toured to Boston, Chicago and Philadelphia. Alfred Reginald Allen (1876-1918), a famous Pennsylvania neurosurgeon, probably acquired this work during one of these exhibitions.
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