ALFRED SISLEY (1839-1899) Les oies (Executed circa 1890-1894)

ALFRED SISLEY (1839-1899)
Les oies
signed 'Sisley' (lower left)
pastel on paper laid down on canvas
19.1 x 24.9cm (7 1/2 x 9 13/16in).
Executed circa 1890-1894
Footnotes:
Provenance
Galerie Bernheim-Jeune, Paris (acquired by 1905).
Lucien Lefebvre-Foinet, Paris, no. 2097.
Galerie Aktuaryus, Zurich.
Anon. sale, Sotheby's, London, 29 June 1983, lot 120.
Dennis Hotz Fine Art, South Africa (acquired at the above sale).
Private collection, Sydney (acquired from the above on 25 August 1983).

Exhibited
Tokyo, Isetan Museum of Art, Retrospective Alfred Sisley, 7 March - 14 April 1985, no. 57 (later travelled to Fukoka and Nara).

Literature
R. Shone, Sisley, London, 1992, no. 159 (illustrated p. 201).
S. Brame & F. Lorenceau, Alfred Sisley, Catalogue critique des peintures et des pastels, Lausanne & Paris, 2021, no. P55 (illustrated p. 511).
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Condition
There is frame rubbing to all four edges. The sheet is pulling at the upper right corner. One or two possible very discreet losses, though these are possibly inherent. Some localised areas of rubbing particularly to the lower left corner, possibly inherent. A possible discreet scuff to the right tree, in the centre.In our opinion, the work is in overall excellent condition.