Joseph Raffael

Nancy Hoffman Gallery, New York
Acquired from the above by the present owner

Washington, D.C., The Corcoran Gallery of Art; Hartford, Wadsworth Athenaeum; Boston, Institute of Contemporary Art; Cambridge, Fogg Art Museum; Minneapolis Institute of Arts; Milwaukee Art Center; Fort Worth Art Museum; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; Atlanta, High Museum of Art; The Brooklyn Museum, America 1976, April 1976 - May 1978
Boston, Museum of Fine Arts, A Private Vision: Contemporary Art from the Graham Gund Collection, February - April 1982, p. 25, illustrated in color
Boston, Museum of Fine Arts, Reflections of Monet, September 1998 - January 1999

John Arthur, Realists at Work, New York 1983, p. 102, illustrated in color
Currant Magazine, August - October 1976, illustrated in color (cover)

This work is in very good condition overall. The canvas is unlined. Under very close inspection, there are a few hairline cracks in the pigment and minor signs of minor wear along the extreme edges of the canvas. Under very close inspection and raking light, there is an area of hairline radial craquelure to the center left of the painting. Unframed.
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