Alfred Sisley, La Seine à Argenteuil, 1870. (est. $1.5/2 million, £900,000/1.2 million, €1/1.5 million) Sotheby’s 4 November 2009 Evening Sale of Impressionist and Modern Art in New York will feature seven paintings from the Durand-Ruel Collection, encompassing works by a number of the Impressionist masters that legendary art dealer Paul Durand-Ruel represented — Pierre-Auguste Renoir, [...]

Alfred Sisley, Bridge at Hampton Court, 1874. Wallraf Richartz Museum & Fondation Corboud, Cologne. © Rheinisches Bildarchiv, Cologne. Alfred Sisley (1839–1899) was one of the greatest landscape painters of the 19th century and a leading figure in the Impressionist movement. Yet Sisley, the only ‘Englishman’ among the French Impressionists, remains a relatively unknown figure to [...]