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ALFRED SISLEY (1839-1899)

Lot 428
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Lot 428 | ALFRED SISLEY (1839-1899)
Estimate value
£ 500 000 – 700 000
ALFRED SISLEY (1839-1899)
Le quai à sable, environs de Port-Marly
signed and dated 'Sisley.75' (lower left)
oil on canvas
18 3/8 x 21 7/8 in. (46.8 x 55.6 cm.)
Painted in 1875




Provenance

Galerie Durand-Ruel, Paris & New York, by 1886.
Cyrus J. Lawrence, New York; sale, The American Art Galleries, Mendelssohn Hall, New York, 21 January 1910, lot 65.
Alexander Morten, New York, by whom acquired at the above sale, and thence by descent; sale, American Art Association, Plaza Hotel, New York, 29 January 1919, lot 50.
Charles W. Kraushaar, New York, by whom acquired at the above sale.
Duncan Phillips, Washington D.C.
Durand-Ruel Galleries, New York, by whom acquired from the above on 5 January 1920.
Minneapolis Institute of Art, Minneapolis, by whom acquired from the above on 22 May 1923.
M. Knoedler & Co., New York, César de Hauke, Paris, & Jacques Lindon, New York, by whom acquired from the above in April 1958.
David Wohl, St. Louis, by whom acquired from the above on 22 September 1958.
Richard L. Feigen & Co., New York.
Robert Carmel, New York, by whom acquired from the above on 17 April 1986, and thence by descent; sale, Christie's, New York, 13 November 1996, lot 27.
Private collection, Switzerland, by whom acquired at the above sale, and thence by descent to the present owner.



Literature

'Sisley Landscape Purchased', in Bulletin of the Minneapolis Institute of Arts, vol. XII, no. 7, October 1923, pp. 54-55 (illustrated p. 55).
'The Landscape in Western Painting', in Bulletin of the Minneapolis Institute of Arts, vol. XXXIII, 1 April 1944, p. 51 (titled 'Quai à sable, Sarthe').
F. Daulte, Alfred Sisley, Catalogue raisonné de l'œuvre peint, Lausanne, 1959, no. 177 (illustrated; catalogued with incorrect dimensions).
N. Alfrey, 'Nineteenth-Century French Exhibitions, London', in Burlington Magazine, September 1983, p. 569 (illustrated fig. 41).
R. Shone, Sisley, New York, 1992, no. 62, p. 92 (illustrated p. 93; titled 'Sand on the Quayside, Port-Marly'; catalogued with incorrect dimensions).
R. Shone, Sisley, London, 2002, no. 62, p. 92 (illustrated p. 93; titled 'Sand on the Quayside, Port-Marly'; catalogued with incorrect dimensions).
S. Brame & F. Lorenceau, Alfred Sisley, Catalogue critique des peintures et des pastels, Paris, 2021, no. 189, pp. 102 & 431 (illustrated pp. 102 & 431; catalogued with incorrect dimensions).



Exhibited

New York, Durand-Ruel Galleries, Exhibition of Paintings by Alfred Sisley, January 1921, no. 20.
Minneapolis, Institute of Art, A Survey of French Landscape Painting, April 1944.
London, Lefevre Gallery, Important XIX & XX Century Works of Art, June - July 1983, no. 15, p. 32 (illustrated p. 33; catalogued with incorrect dimensions).
Tokyo, Isetan Museum of Art, Alfred Sisley, March - April 2000, no. 10, pp. 52, 166 & 179 (illustrated p. 53); this exhibition later travelled to Kagawa, Takamatsu Municipal Museum of Art, April - May 2000; Hiroshima, Museum of Art, May - July 2000 and Wakayama, Departmental Museum of Modern Art, July - September 2000.
Artist:Alfred Sisley (1839 - 1899)
Applied technique:Oil, Painted
Medium:Canvas, Textile
Art style:Impressionism
Place of origin:Western Europe, France, Europe
Auction house category:Paintings, Watercolors, Drawings, Paintings
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