Name: ALFRED STEVENS (BELGIAN, 1823-1906)
Brand: Une femme à fenêtre (The Blue Kimono)
Price: 16000.00 GBP
Availability: OutOfStock

ALFRED STEVENS (BELGIAN, 1823-1906)
Une femme à fenêtre (The Blue Kimono)
signed 'AStevens' (lower right)
oil on canvas
29 x 13 in. (73.6 x 33 cm.)
Painted circa 1871-72.

Jacques Hébrard.
Charles Viguier sale; Galerie Petit, Paris, 4-5 May 1906, lot 72, titled L'attente.
Acquired at the above sale by Bernheim Jeune.
Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, London, 15 May 1908, lot 111.
William Merritt Chase sale; American Art Association, New York, 18 April 1912, lot 139, titled Expectancy,
where purchased by Knoedler.
Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, London, 15 May 1968, lot 111, titled Rêverie.
Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, London, 4 December 1968, lot 140, titled La lettre d'amour.
Purchased by the family of the present owner in auction in France, 1980's,
Thence by descent.

A. Stevens, Register Tableaux dont je me souviens, 1889, no. 144.

London, Barbizon House, 1919, no. 25, titled At the window.

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We are grateful to the Comité Alfred Stevens for confirming the authenticity of this work. The work is accompanied by a certificate from the Comité Alfred Stevens and will be included in their forthcoming Alfred Stevens catalogue raisonné, now in preparation.