Sixty Works by Modern Masters - Flipbook - Page 19
Alfred Sisley
"Though the artist must remain
master of his craft, the surface, at
times raised to the highest pitch
of loveliness, should transmit to
the beholder the sensation which
possessed the artist."
Alfred Sisley
French, 1839 - 1899
Le Village de Champagne au Coucher du Soleil, 1885
Oil on canvas
19¾ x 28 inches / 50 x 73 cm
Signed lower left: Sisley 85
This painting reflects a view of the
village of Champagne captured at
sunset.
Provenance
Gustave Geffroy, a friend of the artist
said of Sisley:
Durand-Ruel, New York, 7 January 1899 (acquired from the
above)
Durand-Ruel, Paris & New York
Erwin Davis, New York (acquired from the above)
Frank Hadley Ginn & Cornelia Root Ginn, Cleveland,
"I have never forgotten
8 March 1926 (acquired from the above)
the splendour of the
The Frank Hadley Ginn & Cornelia Root Ginn Charitable
trees, the glades and rock Trust (by descent from the above)
Anon. sale, Christie's New York, 8 May 2000, lot 6 Purchased
of which [Sisley] spoke
so poetically; nor indeed at the above sale by the previous owner
his account of the lives
Literature
and troubles of the river
François Daulte, Alfred Sisley, Catalogue raisonné de l'oeuvre
peint, Lausanne, 1959, no. 565, illustrated
folk whom he knew so
well through his studious This painting will be included in the new edition of the
Catalogue raisonné of Alfred Sisley by François Daulte, now
and reflective existence
being prepared at Galerie Brame & Lorenceau by the Comité
spent by the river banks
Alfred Sisley
and beneath the poplar
trees."
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