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Auction 133:

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  Auction 132
 


 
132-3215

Courbet, Gustave


Estimate: R 120.000,00 €  |  Sold for: 80.000,00 €

 
(1819 Ornans - La Tour 1877). "Klippe bei Ornans" Öl auf Leinwand. Signiert und datiert (18)73 unten links. Bildgrösse ca. 100x151 cm. Gerahmt.  
 
Depicting cliffs of gray rock, reflected in the mirror-like surface of river Loue, with the grass grown summits forming a horizon before a growing cloudy sky; the water lapping a beach in the left foreground strewn with boulders. Provenance: - George Seney (1826-1893) NY, As president of the Metropolitan Bank (New York City), Seney was situated to become a financier of newly chartered railroads. Charters organized or financed by banker Seney and his Seney Syndicate included the East Tennessee, Virginia and Georgia Railway and the Nickel Plate Road. He was best remembered for amassing a substantial collection of pre-Impressionist 19th-century European and American paintings, some of which he gave to the Metropolitan Museum of Art. The donation included works by George Inness and Francis Davis Millet. - Charles S. Haight Sr.- Sold through Sotheby's Parke-Bernet Galleries January 17th, 1941. - Sotheby's Parke Bernet Galleries sold March 23, 1950 (lot 60- "Rock Cliff Near Ornans" Illustrated). - Private collection Philadelphia Pennsylvania until 2019. - Private collection, Washington DC. Literature: World Collectors Annuary, Vol II 1950 by Fred A. Van Braam, Amsterdamn, Entry # 827.
 
Courbet, Gustave | Bild Nr.1

Courbet, Gustave | Bild Nr.1

Estimate:
R 120.000,00 €
 
Your bid:
Item was sold.
 
Estimate:
R 120.000,00 €
 
Sold for:
80.000,00 €


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