Alfred MANESSIER (1911-1993)L'Adieu du soir, 1939Oil on canvas. Signed and dated lower left. Titled on the back. 24 x 61 cmProvenance : Collection Gaston Diehl. Acquired from the artist on June 27, 1945. We thank Mrs Christine Manessier for confirming the authenticity of this work and for the information she gave us . It is a study for another eponymous work, very similar, but later, dated 1941, of which we do not have the dimensions, also titled L'Adieu du soir (1941). A black and white print of a photograph by Marc Vaux of this work is kept in the Archives of Madame Christine Manessier, the glass-plate negative is kept in the Archives of the Bibliothèque Kandinsky at the Centre Pompidou.