Master Paintings Part I

Master Paintings Part I

Property from the Collection of J.E. Safra

Gustave Courbet

Cliff of Etretat (Falaise d'Etretat, la Porte d'Aval)

Auction Closed

February 6, 04:38 PM GMT

Estimate

500,000 - 700,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Property from the Collection of J.E. Safra

Gustave Courbet

Ornans 1819 - 1877 La Tour-de-Peilz

Cliff of Etretat (Falaise d'Etretat, la Porte d'Aval)


signed and dated lower right: G. Courbet. / 69

oil on canvas

canvas: 31 ¼ by 39 ½ in.; 79.4 by 100.3 cm

framed: 45 ½ by 53 ½ in.; 115.6 by 135.9 cm

Pearson Collection, Paris by 1926;

His sale, Berlin, Paul Cassirer and Hugo Helbing, 18 October 1927, lot 22;

Jacques Guerin, Paris;

Anonymous sale, New York, Christie's, 18 November 1998, lot 14;

From whom acquired by the present collector.

R. Fernier, La vie et l'oeuvre de Gustave Courbet, catalogue raisonné, Lausanne 1978, vol. II, p. 96, cat. no. 720, reproduced p. 97.

Paris, Galerie Fiquet, Courbet, November-December 1926, no. 9 (lent by M. Pearson).

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