Lot 368
Luis Graner y Arrufi (Spanish, 1862-1929, active New Orleans c. 1914-1922), "Young Girl in a Verdant Garden", 1911, oil on canvas, signed and dated lower left, 50 in. x 40 in., framed Note: A native of Barcelona, Spain, Luis Graner y Arrufi studied art in his hometown and in Paris where he was welcomed into the art circles and remained for five years. Graner exhibited at the Paris Salon from 1895 to 1910 and won exhibition medals in Barcelona, Madrid, Berlin and Paris. With his international renown intact, Graner came to New York in 1910. He also traveled to California and spent the winters in New Orleans from 1914 to 1922. The work offered here is dated 1911 and was likely a portrait commission painted in New York. The grand scale of the painting and sensitive treatment of the sitter relate it to the work of his European contemporaries John Singer Sargent and Joaquin Sorolla y Bastida. The lush verdant background with its dappled sunlight reflects the influence of the American Impressionists whose work he would have seen during these first years in the U.S. The marrying of these artistic
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