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Alfred Sisley

Estimate
5,000 - 7,000 USD
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Description

  • Alfred Sisley
  • Le Peintre J.-F. Bouchor et Mme. Alfred Sisley and Étude de chat: A double-sided drawing
  • Pencil on paper
  • 9 1/2 by 6 3/4 in.; 24.1 by 17.1 cm
  • Executed in 1890.

Provenance

Jeanne Diets-Sisley (the artist's daughter, and sold: Hôtel Drouot, Paris, June 3, 1919, lot 36, titled Le Trésor.--Le Peintre Bouchor.-- Paysan ramassant des pommes de terre.-- Inondation à Suresnes (Janvier 1880).)
The Leicester Galleries, London
Sale: Christie's, New York, February 13, 1986, lot 5
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner

Literature

François Daulte, Sisley. Les Saisons, Paris, 1992, illustrated p. 86

Condition

Pencil on paper, double sided. Paper is affixed by tape at top and bottom to the mat, edges of sheet are uneven. Recto: Surface in generally good condition, aside from some minor light stain and surface dirt with a few very faint fox spots. Verso: The same as recto, with also glue stains at top edge, a small tear top edge and some well repaired tears bottom edge.
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Catalogue Note

In a letter dated May 20, 1981, François Daulte comments that the present drawing was completed during the artist's final years in Moret-sur-Loing, and that it will be included in the forthcoming second volume of his Sisley catalogue raisoneé.