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A COLLECTION OF WORKS BY JOSEPH RAPHAEL (LOTS 603-615) After having finished the School of Design of San Francisco, Joseph Raphael left his native country for Paris where he entered the Ecole des Beaux Arts in 1903. From Paris he travelled to Holland every summer, where he stayed in the painters colony of Laren. In Laren he met Johanna Jongkindt, a famous Dutch pianist, who was to become his wife and with whom he left for Brussels in 1912. The area of the Rue de la Gare, the street where the family lived for three years, provided the painter with a wide range of subject-matter such as the railway station, streetscenes and people engaged in their daily activities. When the Raphaels settled in the rural area of Kriekenput, an area on the edge of Uccle, he became inspired by nature and developed into a devout plein-air painter. His colours gradually turned brighter and the artist's brushstroke became broader and more expressionistic. In the course of the twenties there is a gradual shift to woodcutting, using wood from his own cherry trees and a single knife. In 1929 the family relocated to the Netherlands, where they rented a house in Oegstgeest, a village close to the University town of Leiden and not very far away from the sea at Noordwijk and the lake De Kaag, the latter two being favorite subjects of the painter. The artist left Holland for the United States in 1939, aiming to sell his oils and prints to a new and broader public back home. As the war broke out in Europe, he was never to return to the Netherlands and spent the last decade of his life in his place of birth, where he died in 1950.

Joseph Raphael (American, 1896-1950)

Fisherman's wharf, San Francisco

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Joseph Raphael (American, 1896-1950)
Fisherman's wharf, San Francisco
indistinctly inscribed and numbered '120' (lower left)
watercolour and charcoal on paper
34.5 x 52.5 cm.

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Please note that the illustrated work is not the Fisherman's Wharf in San Francisco as stated in the catalogue.