Property from the Collection of J.E. Safra
Gustave Courbet
Cliff of Etretat (Falaise d'Etretat, la Porte d'Aval)
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February 6, 04:38 PM GMT
Estimate
500,000 - 700,000 USD
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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.
Paris, Galerie Fiquet, Courbet, November-December 1926, no. 9 (lent by M. Pearson).
R. Fernier, La vie et l'oeuvre de Gustave Courbet, catalogue raisonné, Lausanne 1978, vol. II, p. 96, cat. no. 720, reproduced p. 97.
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