The Luxembourg Gardens
Catalogue
- Year
- 1982
- Medium
- Lithograph on paper
- Dimensions
- Image: 75 × 95 cm (29 9/16 × 37 7/16 in.); Sheet: 75.5 × 97.5 cm (29 3/4 × 38 7/16 in.)
- Collection
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Artist
- Joseph Raffael
Artist
Printmaking
Joseph Raffael is an American painter born in 1933 whose practice centers on the close observation of water, fish, and aquatic environments rendered in luminous, hyperrealistic detail. Working primarily in watercolor and oil, he constructs immersive compositions that dissolve the boundary between scientific documentation and abstract light play. His work emerged from the postwar American engagement with nature as a subject of sustained perceptual intensity.
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- Joseph Raffael
- Year
- 1982
- Medium
- Lithograph on paper
- Dimensions
- Image: 75 × 95 cm (29 9/16 × 37 7/16 in.); Sheet: 75.5 × 97.5 cm (29 3/4 × 38 7/16 in.)
- Watts ID
- WW-1982-070789
Source
- Collection
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Source
- aic
- Reference
- View at source
- Status
- verified