John White Alexander, an American Painter of the Belle Époque in Paris
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Very rare in French auction rooms, John White Alexander — one of the American masters of painting — pays us a visit, in the company of an adolescent from the Belle Époque. John White Alexander (1856-1915), Portrait d’Édith Révil, 1900, signed and dated canvas, 90.5 x 121 cm/35.62 x 48.03 in.Estimate: €30,000/€50,000 In the effervescent Paris of the 1900s, American painter John White Alexander's reputation for excellence seems to have been well earned, and Portrait d'Édith Révil is ample proof of this... It was around 1880 that the New York artist discovered the City of Light, then the capital of the arts, at the culmination of a European
