ALFRED SISLEY (1839-1899)

Lot 34
15.10.2025 00:00UTC +01:00
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ID 1472422
Lot 34 | ALFRED SISLEY (1839-1899)
Estimate value
£ 500 000 – 800 000
ALFRED SISLEY (1839-1899)
La prairie
signed ‘Sisley.’ (lower right)
oil on canvas
19 ¾ x 28 ¾ in. (50 x 73 cm.)
Painted circa 1880




Provenance

Paul Durand-Ruel, Paris.
M. Picq-Véron, Ermont-Eaubonne, by whom acquired from the above.
Galerie Durand-Ruel, Paris, by whom acquired from the above on 25 June 1892.
Durand-Ruel Gallery, New York, by whom acquired from the above on 26 May 1897 and until at least 1949.
Private collection, Paris.
Galerie de l’Elysée [Alex Maguy], Paris, by whom acquired in 1961.
Acquired from the above on 19 July 1961, and thence by descent to the present owner.



Literature

F. Daulte, Alfred Sisley, Catalogue raisonné de l’oeuvre peint, Lausanne, 1959, no. 377 (illustrated pl. 377).
S. Brame & F. Lorenceau, Alfred Sisley, Catalogue critique des peintures et des pastels, Paris, 2021, no. 437, pp. 183 & 457 (illustrated).



Exhibited

(possibly) Paris, Salons du Panorama de Reischoffen, Septième Expositions des Artistes Indépendants, Paris, March, 1882.
(possibly) Paris, Galerie Durand-Ruel, Exposition Sisley, June, 1883.
Boston, Walter Kimball Gallery, Paintings by Alfred Sisley from the Durand-Ruel collection, March, 1908, no. 7.
New York, Durand-Ruel Gallery, Exhibition paintings by Sisley, November - December, 1914, no. 3.
New York, Durand-Ruel Gallery Exhibition paintings by Sisley, March - April 1917, no. 21.
New York, Durand-Ruel Gallery, Exhibition of paintings by Alfred Sisley, April - May 1927, no. 18.
Giverny, Musée des impressionnismes, Impressionism on the seine, April - July 2010, no. 19, p. 89 (illustrated).
Martigny, Fondation Pierre Gianadda, de Renoir à Sam Szafran, Parcours d’un collectionneur, December 2010 - June 2011, no. 10, pp. 34 & 278 (illustrated p. 35).
Lausanne, Fondation de l’Hermitage, Au fil des collections, de Tiepolo à Degas, January - May 2012, no. 93, p. 199 (illustrated p. 95).
Venice, Peggy Guggenheim Collection, The Avant-Gardes of Fin-de-Siècle Paris: Signac, Bonnard, Redon, and their contemporaries, September - January 2014 (illustrated p. 113).
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