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Alfred SISLEY (1839-1899) Moret-sur-Loing, 1889
Oil on canva…
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Alfred SISLEY (1839-1899) Moret-sur-Loing, 1889
Oil on canva…
See original version (French)
Estimate €200,000 - €300,000
Voluntary lot
Description
Alfred SISLEY (1839-1899)
Moret-sur-Loing, 1889
Oil on canvas, signed lower left.
33 x 41 cm
In an antique carved wood frame.
Provenance :
- Former collection of Mme Pierrotet, Paris.
- Jacques Fauchier-Magnan, Paris (1885 - 1964).
- By descent to the present owners.
Exhibitions :
- 16 February - 13 April 1958, Bern, Kunstmuseum, Alfred Sisley, n°77.
- 10 February - 30 March 1971, Paris, Galeries Durand-Ruel, Sisley, n°47.
Bibliography :
- François Daulte, Alfred Sisley catalogue raisonné de l'œuvre peint, Éditions Durand-Ruel, Lausanne, 1959, described and reproduced under n° 703.
- Sylvie Brame and François Lorenceau, Alfred Sisley catalogue critique des peintures et des pastels, La Bibliothèque des Arts , Lausanne, 2021, described and reproduced on page 294 under n°785 and on page 487 under the same number.
In Moret-sur-Loing, where he settled permanently in 1882, Sisley discovered much more than a simple motif: a veritable painting laboratory. Riverbanks, slow-moving water, poplar trees, bridges and church silhouettes provided him with a limited but inexhaustible vocabulary, which he repeated year after year with an almost serial approach. It was here that his art reached one of its most accomplished forms: a painting stripped of all superfluous picturesqueness, tending towards the truth of atmosphere alone. Dated 1889, Moret-sur-Loing is a perfect illustration of this late mastery. The space is constructed with remarkable economy; the light, diffuse and vibrant, unifies the riverbank, the water and the sky; the town, barely visible in the distance, gives the painting its silent measure. There's nothing heavy-handed here, nothing overdone: just the perfect harmony of a look, a place and a light. - Expert : Agnès SEVESTRE-BARBE
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