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Lot 57: ALFRED  SISLEY

Est: $2,800,000 USD - $3,500,000 USDSold:
Sotheby'sNew York, NY, USMay 02, 2012

Item Overview

Description

PROPERTY  FROM  AN  IMPORTANT  AMERICAN  COLLECTION
1839  -  1899
UN  NOYER  DANS  LA  PRAIRIE  DE  THOMERY
Signed  Sisley.  (lower  left)
Oil  on  canvas
22  3/4    by  28  1/4    in.
57.8  by  71.8  cm
Painted  in  1880.

Artist or Maker

Exhibited

New York, Paul Rosenberg & Co., Loan Exhibition of Paintings by Alfred Sisley, 1961, no. 14, illustrated in the catalogue


New York, Wildenstein Gallery, Alfred Sisley, 1839-1889, 1966, no. 46, illustrated in the catalogue


Ann Arbor, University of Michigan Museum of Art, The Crisis of Impressionism, 1878-1882, 1979, no. 51, illlustrated in the catalogue

Memphis, The Dixon Gallery and Gardens, Degas and His Friends, 1986, no. 40, illustrated in the catalogue

Literature

B. Bibb, "The Work of Alfred Sisley," The Studio, London, December 1899, illustrated p. 154

Gustave Geffroy, Sisley, Paris, 1923, illustrated pl. 20

Gustave Geffroy, Sisley, Paris, 1927, illustrated pl. 52

François Daulte, Alfred Sisley, Catalogue raisonné de l'oeuvre peint, 1959, no. 397, illustrated (with the measurements 54 by 73 cm)

The Toledo Museum of Art, European Paintings, Toledo, 1976, illustrated pl. 252

Provenance

Durand-Ruel, Paris (acquired from the artist in 1881)

H. Vever, Paris (acquired from the above in 1893 and sold: Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, February 1-2, 1897, lot 109)

M. Behrend (acquired at the above sale)

Léon Orosdi (sold: Hôtel Drouot, Paris, March 25, 1923, lot 67)

Beaumont, Paris


Rosenberg & Stiebel, New York


Edmund Drummond Libbey, Ohio


Toledo Museum of Art, Ohio (acquired from the above in 1952 and sold: Sotheby's, New York, November 7, 2006, lot 4)


Acquired at the above sale

Auction Details

Impressionist & Modern Art Evening Sale

by
Sotheby's
May 02, 2012, 12:00 PM EST

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