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GEORGES SEURAT (1859-1891)

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12.05.2022 20:00UTC -04:00
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ID 753555
Lot 48 | GEORGES SEURAT (1859-1891)
GEORGES SEURAT (1859-1891)Paysage, homme assis (Etude pour Un dimanche après-midi à l'Ile de la Grande Jatte)oil on panel6 1⁄4 x 9 5⁄8 in. (15.7 x 24.5 cm.)Painted in 1884-1885 Provenance Estate of the artist. Léon Appert, Paris.Paul Levasseur, Paris. Mme Fernand Canu, Paris (before 1961).Anon. sale, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 15 April 1988, lot 52.André Bromberg, Paris (acquired at the above sale); sale, Christie's, New York, 3 November 2010, lot 9.Acquired at the above sale by the present owners. Literature H. Dorra and J. Rewald, Seurat: L'oeuvre peint, biographie et catalogue critique, Paris, 1959, p. 118, no. 111 (illustrated; titled Berge, étude pour "La Grande-Jatte").C.M. de Hauke, Seurat et son oeuvre, Paris, 1961, vol. I, p. 68, no. 111 (illustrated, p. 69).A. Chastel and F. Minervino, L'opera completa di Seurat, Milan, 1972, p. 99, no. 114 (illustrated; titled Figura seduta in riva alla senna). A. Madeleine-Perdrillant, Seurat, Geneva, 1990, p. 200 (illustrated).A. Blaugrund, ed., Charting New Waters: Redefining Marine Painting, Winona, 2013, pp. 85 and 113, figure 33 (illustrated in color, p. 84). Exhibited Paris, 23 Boulevard des Italiens, Exposition de la Revue Blanche, Georges Seurat: Oeuvres peintes et dessinées, March-April 1900, no. 12 (titled Etude).The Art Institute of Chicago, Seurat and the Making of "La Grande Jatte", June-September 2004, pp. 73, 264 and 274, no. 42 (illustrated in color, pp. 73 and 266).Winona, Minnesota Marine Art Museum (on extended loan, 2010-2022). Sale Room Notice Please note that this work has been requested by the Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio di Padova e Rovigo, Padua, for its exhibition L'occhio in gioco, which will be shown 24 September 2022-26 February 2023.
Artist:Georges Seurat (1859 - 1891)
Applied technique:Oil on panel
Art style:Impressionism
Category:Painting
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