Property from the Meier Family Collection
Alfred Sisley
1839 - 1899
Lisière de forêt au printemps
signed Sisley. and dated 89. (lower right)
oil on canvas
23 ⅞ by 29 in.
60.6 by 73.7 cm.
Executed in 1889.
Condition Report
Provenance
Maria Ida Adiana (Riet) van Blaaderen-Hoogendijk, Amsterdam (acquired by 1930)
Buffa & Zonen, Amsterdam (acquired from the above)
Kunstsalon Abels, Cologne (acquired from the above on 10 November 1940)
Adolf and Irma Pagenstecher, Wiesbaden (acquired from the above in January 1941)
Wiesbaden Central Collection Point (in October 1945)
Netherlands Art Property Foundation (SNK) Depot, The Hague (Inv. 2624/525) (in 1950)
Frederik Müller & Cie., Amsterdam, 11-18 March 1952, lot 867
Karl A. Legat, The Hague (acquired from the above)
Delius Gallery, New York
M. Knoedler & Co., New York (acquired from the above in 1953)
William Rand, New York (acquired from the above in March 1954)
Christie's, New York, 19 February 1998, lot 7 (consigned by the above)
Michelle Rosenfeld Gallery, New York
Richard Veigel, Arlington, Texas
Pillsbury & Peters Fine Art, Dallas
Roger and Laura Meier, Portland (acquired from the above in June 2002)
Acquired from the above by the present owner
Literature
François Daulte, Alfred Sisley Catalogue raisonné de l'oeuvre peint, Lausanne, 1959, no. 349, n.p., illustrated (dated 1880)
Sylvie Brame and François Lorenceau, Alfred Sisley: Catalogue critique des peintures et des pastels, Lausanne, 2021, no. 805, pp. 302 and 489, illustrated
Exhibited
Amsterdam, Stedelijk Museum, Vincent van Gogh en zijn Tijdgenoten, 1930, no. 292 (titled Korenveldje)
Portland Art Museum, Paris to Portland: Impressionist & Post-Impressionist Masters in Portland Collections, 2003, n.n., p. 13, illustrated in color (detail) and p. 45
Portland Art Museum, 2018 - 2023 (on extended loan)
Portland Art Museum, Paris 1900: City of Entertainment, 2019
Tacoma Art Museum, Monet, Renoir, Degas, and Their Circle: French Impressionism and the Northwest, 2019 - 2020, pp. 21 and 47, illustrated in color
