ALFRED SISLEY’S MONOGRAM
Our Claim
Unlocking the design and audacious location
is ”How to See” the unobtrusive monogram.
Artist credited for combining camouflage and
misdirection techniques with the location.
Research Pages highlight Renoir’s 'initialling techniques’.
Footbridge & Lesson Monograms
It is reasonable to link the provenance of The Lesson painting with the earlier monogrammed work. Sisley kept the portrait of Pierre in a family setting, all his life.
THE FOOTBRIDGE ©1867
Our Claim
Research Pages authenticate the painting as by Sisley. Monogrammed and an area has an early Impressionist Palette. Likely, a Bougival Canvas.
In the 1860’s the original 'fab four’ of Camille Pissarro Alfred Sisley Claude Monet Pierre-Auguste Renoir created, signed-up to and released the Impressionist Palette in Art.
HOW SISLEY’S MONOGRAM WAS DISCOVERED
We discovered the monogram on the unsigned ‘Footbridge’ painting in September 2012 and speculated that this departure from the normal form of his signature may be due to personal ties with the Fontainebleau location and that this was a ‘private work’, he had intended to keep see page: ‘The Footbridge’ painting ( a ‘missing’ Bougival canvas).
Having unlocked the design structure of the monogram and it’s likely location in a painting, we looked for another ‘unsigned’ work by Alfred Sisley. We were not surprised when we found the monogram on ‘The Lesson’ in December 2012.
Provenance of ‘The Lesson’ confirms that Alfred Sisley kept this ‘unsigned’ work all his life. ‘The Lesson’ remains the only known ‘unsigned’ painting in the Catalogue Raisonné.
Our Claim – see page: Brame & Lorenceau