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Property from an Important International Collection

Alfred Sisley

Chemin à l'entrée d'un bois

Auction Closed

May 16, 09:00 PM GMT

Estimate

1,000,000 - 1,500,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Property from an Important International Collection

Alfred Sisley

1839 – 1899


Chemin à l'entrée d'un bois

signed Sisley (lower right)

oil on canvas

23 ¾ by 29 in.

60.4 by 73.7 cm.

Executed circa 1891.

Paul Aubry, Paris 

Galeries Georges Petit, Paris, 10 May 1897, lot 30 (consigned by the above)

Durand-Ruel, Paris (acquired from the above) 

Galerie Paul Cassirer, Berlin (acquired from the above) 

Galerie Georg Caspari, Munich (acquired from the above in 1917) 

E. K. Königs, Hamburg (acquired from the above in 1932)

Estate of the above

Galerie Heuser, Hamburg

Kunstsalon Abels, Cologne (acquired from the above in 1952) 

Dr. Curtius, Krefeld (acquired from the above in 1952) 

Otto Wolff von Amerongen, Cologne 

Private Collection, Europe (acquired by descent from the above) 

Sotheby's, London, 24 June 2015, lot 43 (consigned by the above)

Acquired from the above by the present owner

François Daulte, Alfred Sisley, Catalogue raisonné de l'oeuvre peint, 1959, no. 755, illustrated

Sylvie Brame and François Lorenceau, Alfred Sisley: Catalogue critique des peintures et des pastels, Lausanne, 2021, no. 881, pp. 327 and 496, illustrated in color

London, Royal Academy of Arts; Paris, Musée d'Orsay and Baltimore, Walters Art Gallery, Alfred Sisley, 1991, no. 43, illustrated

Wuppertal, Von der Heydt-Museum, Alfred Sisley: der wahre Impressionist, 2011 - 2012, p. 199, illustrated