Alfred Sisley
Saint-Mammès during the strike of 14th July
ca. 1885
Saint-Mammès pendant le chômage, le 14 juillet
Oil on canvas
38 x 55 cm
Signed lower left: Sisley
Brame/Lorenceau 640
Sylvie Brame, François Laurenceau, Alfred Sisley, Catalogue critique des peintures et des pastels, Lausanne & Paris 2021.
Provenance
1Bernheim-Jeune Paris Brame/Laurenceau no. 640.
2Mrs. W. F. Robertson Scotland • by 1943 Exhibition label on the upper left of the stretcher: THE CORPORATION OF THE CITY OF GLASGOW / Glasgow Art Gallery & Museums / Title «PÉNICHES EN RIVIÈRE» / Artist ALFRED SISLEY / Owner Mrs. W. F. Robertson / Medium … Size / Exhibition «SPIRIT OF FRANCE» 1943 / Catalogue No. 36 … Registered No. …
3Marlborough Fine Art Ltd. London • by 1955 Camille Pissarro 1830–1903, Alfred Sisley 1839–1899, (exh. cat.) Marlborough Fine Art Ltd., London 1955, no. 46.
4Emil Bührle Zurich • 27 June 1955 until [d.] 28 November 1956 Acquired from the above for £ 5.000 (= CHF 60.000), AStEGB, Price list, handwritten by Emil Bührle and containing the names of five artists, including Sisley; the Price list was drawn up for a group of mostly Old Master paintings whose purchase Bührle was negotiating with Frank Lloyd from Marlborough Fine Art Ltd., London; that part of the purchase came to £ 30.000 (= CHF 360.000) and included four Old Master paintings, non of them today in the Emil Bührle Collection; AStEGB, Entry Book II, 27 June 1955, lists part of these paintings, along with a group of 4 drawings by Picasso which Bührle acquired around the same time.
5Given by the heirs of Emil Bührle to the Foundation E.G. Bührle Collection Zurich • 1960 Inv. 98.
AStEGB = Archive of the Foundation E.G. Bührle Collection, Zurich
Sylvie Brame, François Laurenceau, Alfred Sisley, Catalogue critique des peintures et des pastels, Lausanne & Paris 2021.
Exhibitions
1943The Spirit of France, French Paintings of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum • Glasgow • 1943 no. 36.
1955Camille Pissarro 1830–1903, Alfred Sisley 1839–1899 Marlborough Fine Art Ltd. • London • 1955 no. 46.
1999Sisley und die Brücke von Hampton Court Foundation E.G. Bührle Collection • Zurich • 1999 no. 10.
2010Van Gogh, Cézanne, Monet, Die Sammlung Bührle zu Gast im Kunsthaus Zürich Kunsthaus Zurich • 2010 no. 98.
2019La Collection Emil BührleMusée Maillol • Paris • 2019 no. 9.
References
1959François Daulte Alfred Sisley, Catalogue raisonné de l’œuvre peint Lausanne • 1959 • no. 627 (ill.).
1973Leopold Reidemeister etc. Stiftung Sammlung Emil G. Bührle • Fondation Collection Emil G. Bührle • Foundation Emil G. Bührle Collection Zurich & Munich • 1973 • no. 60 (ill.; 21986).
1994Emil Maurer Stiftung Sammlung E.G. Bührle, Zürich Bern • 1994 • p. 46 (English edition: Foundation E.G. Bührle Collection, Zurich, Bern 1995).
2005Lukas Gloor • Marco Goldin (ed.) Foundation E.G. Bührle Collection, Zurich, Catalogue vol. 2 • Conegliano & Zurich • 2005 • no. 100 (ill.; German edition: Stiftung Sammlung E.G. Bührle, Katalog • Italian edition: Fondazione Collezione E.G. Bührle, Catalogo).
2021Sylvie Brame • François Lorenceau Alfred Sisley, Catalogue critique des peintures et des pastels Lausanne & Paris • 2021 • no. 640 (ill.).