Lot 51
  • 51

Alfred Stevens

Estimate
30,000 - 40,000 USD
bidding is closed

Description

  • Alfred Stevens
  • L'absence
  • signed Alfred Stevens (lower right)
  • oil on panel
  • 24 1/4 by 19 1/2 in.
  • 62.2 by 49.5 cm

Provenance

van der Donckt (in 1862)
P. Langerhuizen (and sold: his sale, Amsterdam, March 27, 1878)
Köhler
Edmond Davis
Sale: Christie's, London, July 7, 1939, lot 9

Exhibited

London, International Exhibition, 1862, no. 1846
London, Royal Academy of Arts, Exhibition of Flemish and Belgian Art, 1300-1900, no. 427

Literature

Journal des Beaux-Arts, 1878
Jean-Louis Vaudoyer, Ricard et Stevens à propos d'un double centenaire, 1924, n.p.
Apollo Press, 1927, n.p.

Condition

On stable cradled panel; under UV: heavy varnish makes surface difficult to read.
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