Lot 34
  • 34

Alfred Stevens

Estimate
70,000 - 100,000 USD
bidding is closed

Description

  • Alfred Stevens
  • Le coup de vent
  • signed A. Stevens. and dated 91 (lower left)
  • oil on canvas
  • 77 1/4 by 47 1/4 in.
  • 196 by 120 cm

Provenance

Gérard (acquired directly from the artist, 1891 and sold, his sale, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, February 25, 1896, lot 66)
Noto
Guillaume Campo, Antwerp
Sale: Sotheby's New York, May 28, 1981, lot 204, illustrated (as En Promenade)
Sale: Christie's, New York, May 1, 2000, lot 94, illustrated
Acquired at the above sale

Exhibited

London, Whitford & Hughes, Moments de la Femme Fatale, 1985, no. 5
London, Whitford & Hughes, A Clear View, The Belgian Luminist Tradition, 1987, no. 1 (as Au bord de la mer

Literature

The artist's account book, 1891, no. 757
Burlington Magazine, 1906
Patrick & Viviane Berko, Dictionary of Belgian Painters born between 1750-1875, Brussels, 1981, p. 607

Condition

Lined; thinness to surface primarily in background, scratch visible in center of costume. Under UV: Dots and dashes throughout composition.
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