Summer at Argenteuil (Summer at Bougival) · Alfred Sisley

Alfred Sisley

Summer at Argenteuil (Summer at Bougival)

1876

Été à Argenteuil (Été à Bougival)

Oil on canvas

47 x 62 cm

Signed & dated lower right: Sisley 76

Brame/Lorenceau 210

Vergrössern

Drucken

Provenance

1François Depeaux Rouen Catalogue des tabelaux modernes, aquarelles, pastels, dessins [….] composant la collection de feu M. Depeaux, Hôtel Drouot, Paris (30 June 1921), no. 67; Marc-Henri Tellier, François Depeaux (1853–1920), Le charbonnier et les impressionnistes, Rouen 2010, no. 460; Sylvain Amic (ed.), François Depeaux, Collectionneur des impressionnistes, Paris & Rouen 2020, no. 243 (ill.).

2Moïse Lévi de Benzion Cairo & Draveil • Seine-et-Oise • until [d.] 1943 Brame/Lorenceau no. 210.

3Confiscated by the «Einsatzstab Reichsleiter Rosenberg», Paris (ERR no. LB 66), and taken over on behalf of Hermann Göring by Walter Andreas Hofer 12 July 1941 Nancy H. Yeide, Beyond the Dreams of Avarice, The Hermann Goering Collection, Dallas 2009, no. D118.

4Traded to Galerie Fischer, in exchange for works of art Lucerne • 22 October 1941 Yeide, as above, n. (3); Esther Tisa Francini etc., Fluchtgut, Raubgut, Der Transfer von Kulturgütern in und über die Schweiz 1933–1945 und die Frage der Restitution, Unabhängige Expertenkommission Schweiz–Zweiter Weltkrieg (ed.), Zurich 2001, pp. 106 (n. 267), 286 (n. *1).

5Purchased by Emil Bührle Zurich • 3 February 1942 Purchased from Galerie Fischer for CHF 28.000, AStEGB, Letter from Emil Bührle to his lawyer, Dr. Walther Huber, Zurich, 14 May 1947, appointing Huber as his proxy for the trial Lévi de Benzion (heirs) vs. Bührle. The figure corresponds to the amount which Bührle later claimed from Fischer in his lawsuit against the latter, and whilst Fischer refused to acknowledge obligation for reimbursement in principle, the figures as such where never questioned. Therefore, these figures defined the amounts which Fischer had to pay back to Bührle after the Federal Court came to the conclusion that Bührle had acquired the paintings in good faith, AStEGB, Swiss Federal Court, Kammer zur Beurteilung von Raubgutklagen / Chambre des actions en revendication de biens spoliés, Lausanne, Verdict of 5 July 1951 (typescript).

6Restituted to the estate of Moïse Lévi de Benzion 15 December 1948 AStEGB, Swiss Federal Court, Kammer zur Beurteilung von Raubutklagen / Chambre des actions en revendication de biens spoliés, Lausanne, Request for restitution of artworks by the heirs of Moïse Lévi de Benzion, represented by Mrs. Paule-Dinah Lévi de Benzion, vs. various defendants (including Bührle), Verdict of 15 December 1948 (typescript), ordering the restitution of the claimed paintings, including Sisley, Été à Bougival.

7The estate of Moïse Lévi de Benzion Cairo 1948–1950 Archive Kunstmuseum Bern, Letter from Maurice-E. Meyer, Avocat, Lausanne, to Professor Max Huggler [Director of the Kunstmuseum Bern], Bern, 15 September 1952, summarizing the lot attributed to Mme Paule-Dinah Lévi de Benzion following the distribution of her late husband’s estate.

8Paule-Dinah Lévi de Benzion London • 1950 Widow of Moïse Lévi de Benzion, after the distribution of the estate of Moïse Lévi de Benzion, resolved by the Tribunal Hasby, Cairo, 21 May 1950, Letter as above, n. (7).

9Repurchased from Paule-Dinah Lévi de Benzion by Emil Bührle Zurich • 31 May 1950 with Bührle until [d.] 28 November 1956 Acquired through Maurice-E. Meyer, Avocat, Lausanne, from Paule-Dinah Lévi de Benzion, AStEGB, Act of sale between Paule-Dinah Lévi de Benzion and Emil Bührle, regarding Sisley, L’Été à Bougival, Lausanne & Zurich, 31 Mai 1950. The price paid was CHF 28.000, based upon an appraisal by Max Huggler, done at Meyer’s instigation in 1948 and confirming that the price of CHF 28.000, paid by Bührle in 1942, was still valid, Archive Kunstmuseum Bern, Letter from Professor Max Huggler [Director of the Kunstmuseum Bern], Bern, to Maurice-E. Meyer, Avocat, Lausanne, 14 December 1948; AStEGB, Letter of Emil Bührle to Maurice-E. Meyer, Lausanne, 4 June 1950, confirming that he had transferred the amount.

10Given by the heirs of Emil Bührle to the Foundation E.G. Bührle Collection Zurich • 1960 Inv. 100.

AStEGB = Archive of the Foundation E.G. Bührle Collection, Zurich

Exhibitions

1949Impressionisten, Monet, Pissarro, Sisley, Vorläufer und Zeitgenossen Kunsthalle Basel • 1949 no. 85.

1950Europäische Kunst 13.–20. Jahrhundert aus Zürcher Sammlungen Kunsthaus Zurich • 1950 p. 26.

1955Europäische Meister 1790–1910 Kunstmuseum Winterthur • 1955 no. 184.

1958Alfred Sisley 1839–1899 Kunstmuseum Berne • 1958 no. 26.

1958Sammlung Emil G. Bührle, Festschrift zu Ehren von Emil G. Bührle zur Eröffnung des Kunsthaus-Neubaus und Katalog der Sammlung Emil G. Bührle Kunsthaus Zurich • 1958 no. 199.

1958Französische Malerei von Manet bis Matisse aus der Sammlung Emil G. Bührle/Zürich Nationalgalerie der ehemals Staatlichen Museen, Schloss Charlottenburg • Berlin • 1958 no. 23.

1958Hauptwerke der Sammlung Emil Georg Bührle–Zürich Haus der Kunst • Munich • 1958–59 no. 151.

1961Masterpieces of French Painting from the Bührle Collection Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh • National Gallery, London • 1961 no. 29.

1990The Passionate Eye, Impressionist and Other Master Paintings from the Collection of Emil G. Bührle, Zurich, Catalogue of the Exhibition in Commemoration of the 100^th Birthday of the Collector Emil G. Bührle National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. • Musée des beaux-arts de Montréal • Yokohama Museum of Art • Royal Academy of Arts, London • 1990–91 no. 37.

1999Sisley und die Brücke von Hampton Court Foundation E.G. Bührle Collection • Zurich • 1999 no. 8.

2010Van Gogh, Cézanne, Monet, Die Sammlung Bührle zu Gast im Kunsthaus Zürich Kunsthaus Zurich • 2010 no. 100.

2011Alfred Sisley, Der wahre Impressionist Von der Heydt- Museum • Wuppertal• 2011–12 p. 128.

2017Chefs-d’oeuvre de la collection Bührle, Manet, Cézanne, Monet, Van Gogh… Fondation de l’Hermitage • Lausanne • 2017 no. 16.

2018Bührle Collection: Impressionist Masterpieces from the E.G. Bührle Collection, Zurich (Switzerland) National Art Center, Tokyo • Kyushu National Museum, Fukuoka • Nagoya City Art Museum • 2018 no. 25.

2019La Collection Emil Bührle Musée Maillol • Paris • 2019 no. 10.

References

1959François Daulte Alfred Sisley, Catalogue Raisonné de l’œuvre peint Lausanne • 1959 • no. 227 (ill.).

1973Leopold Reidemeister etc. Stiftung Sammlung Emil G. Bührle • Fondation Collection Emil G. Bührle • Foundation Emil G. Bührle Collection Zurich & Munich • 1973 • no. 59 (ill.; ²1986).

1989Anne Distel Les collectionneurs des impressionnistes, Amateurs et marchands Düdingen • 1989 • p. 87, fig. 69.

1994Emil Maurer Stiftung Sammlung E.G. Bührle, Zürich Bern • 1994 • pp. 94–95 (ill.; English edition: Foundation E.G. Bührle Collection, Zurich, Bern 1995).

2001Esther Tisa Francini etc. Fluchtgut, Raubgut, Der Transfer von Kulturgütern in und über die Schweiz 1933–1945 und die Frage der Restitution Unabhängige Expertenkommission Schweiz–Zweiter Weltkrieg (ed.) • Zurich • 2001 • (1), pp. 106 (n. 267), 286 (n. *1), 509.

2005Lukas Gloor • Marco Goldin (ed.) Foundation E.G. Bührle Collection, Zurich, Catalogue vol. 2 • Conegliano & Zurich • 2005 • no. 99 (ill.; German edition: Stiftung Sammlung E.G. Bührle, Katalog • Italian edition: Fondazione Collezione E.G. Bührle, Catalogo).

2009Nancy H. Yeide Beyond the Dreams of Avarice, The Hermann Goering Collection Dallas • 2009 • no. D118 (ill.).

2010Marc-Henri Tellier François Depeaux (1853–1920), Le charbonnier et les impressionnistes Rouen • 2010 • p. 208 (ill. bottom), no. 460.

2020Sylvain Amic (ed.) François Depeaux, Collectionneur des impressionnistes Paris & Rouen • 2020 • no. 243 (ill.).

2021Sylvie Brame • François Lorenceau Alfred Sisley, Catalogue critique des peintures et des pastels Lausanne & Paris • 2021 • no. 210 (ill.).