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ALFRED SISLEY Paris 1839 – 1899 Moret-sur-Loing
Paysage au tas de bois
Signed and dated lower right: Sisley 77 Canvas: 15 x 22 in / 38.1 x 55.9 cm Frame size: 23 x 30 in / 58.4 x 76.2 cm In an antique Louis XIV carved and gilded frame PROVENANCE:
Ödön Faragó, Budapest; sale Ernst Museum, Budapest, 1935, lot 227, bt. Chorin Mr and Mrs Ferenc Chorin (lost possession 1943-45) Edmund W Mudge, Dallas Christie’s New York, 15th November 1988, lot 3 Christie’s New York, 5th November 2003, lot 202 (sold after an agreement with the heirs of Mr and Mrs Ferenc Chorin) Salis & Vertes, Salzburg; by whom sold to a European private collector in 2004 EXHIBITED:
Budapest, Muscarnok (Hall of Exhibitions), First Exhibition of Art Works Taken into Public Ownership, 1919, room VI, no.27 Budapest, The Countess Eva Almásy-Teleki Institute of Art, Exhibition of French Art Works in Private Hands, 1940, no.210 Tokyo, Galerie Art Point, Impressionists, 1989, no.170
LITER ATURE:
Lászlo Mravik, The “Sacco di Budapest” and Depredation of Hungary 1938-1949, Budapest 1998, no.4204, illus. The Comité Sisley confirms the authenticity of this painting, which will be included in the new edition of the Catalogue Raisonné of Alfred Sisley by François Daulte, being prepared at Galerie Brame & Lorenceau by the Comité Alfred Sisley