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Lot 10: ALFRED SISLEY

Est: $2,000,000 USD - $3,000,000 USDSold:
Sotheby'sNew York, NY, USNovember 02, 2011

Item Overview

Description

PROPERTY FROM THE MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS, BOSTON, SOLD TO BENEFIT THE COLLECTION
1839 - 1899
SAINT-MAMMÈS, LE MATIN
Signed Sisley (lower right)
Oil on canvas
19 3/4 by 29 in.
50.2 by 73.7 cm
Painted in 1881.

Artist or Maker

Exhibited

Paris, Galerie Georges Petit, Exposition d'oeuvres d'Alfred Sisley, 1917, no. 7

London, Royal Academy of Arts; Paris, Musée d'Orsay & Baltimore, The Walters Art Gallery, Sisley, 1992-93, no. 52, illustrated in color in the catalogue

London, Hayward Gallery, Landscapes in France: Impressionism and its Rivals, 1995, no. 99, illustrated in color in the catalogue

Ferrara, Palazzo dei Diamanti, Alfred Sisley: Poeta dell'impressionismo, 2002, no. 40, illustrated in color in the catalogue

Las Vegas, Bellagio Gallery of Fine Art, Claude Monet 1840-1926: Masterworks from the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 2004-05

Rimini, Rocca Malatestiana, Museum of Fine Arts Highlights, 2009-10

Tokyo, Mori Arts Center Gallery & Kyoto, Municipal Museum of Art, European Masterpieces, 2010

Literature

François Daulte, Alfred Sisley, Catalogue raisonné de l'oeuvre peint, 1959, no. 421, illustrated

Peter C. Sutton, The William Appleton Coolidge Collection, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 1995, no. 18, illustrated p. 87

Marco Goldin, Monet: la Senna le ninfee, Conegliano, 2004, illustrated p. 76

Provenance

Josse & Gaston Bernheim-Jeune, Paris

Galeries Bernheim-Jeune, Paris (acquired from the above May 3, 1912)

Collection Hirsch (acquired from the above on May 4, 1912 and sold: Hôtel Drouot, Paris, December 7, 1912, lot 46)

Félix Gérard (acquired at the above sale)

Bernheim-Jeune, Paris

Paul Cassirer, Berlin (acquired from the above)

Max Emden, Hamburg (sold: Ball und Graupe, Berlin, June 9, 1931, lot 49)

Siegfried Arndt, Berlin and New York (probably acquired at the above sale or in the early 1930s)

Estate of Siegfried Arndt

Knoedler and Co. and Henry Pearlman, New York (acquired from the above in 1958)

William A. Coolidge, Boston (acquired from the above on March 24, 1959)

Acquired as a bequest from the above on January 27, 1993

Auction Details

Impressionist & Modern Art Evening Sale

by
Sotheby's
November 02, 2011, 12:00 PM EST

1334 York Avenue, New York, NY, 10021, US