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GEORGES SEURAT (1859-1891)

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Lot 808 | GEORGES SEURAT (1859-1891)
GEORGES SEURAT (1859-1891)Ouvriers enfonçant des pieuxoil on panel6 x 9 1⁄2 in. (15.2 x 24.8 cm.)Painted circa 1881 Provenance Ernestine Seurat, Paris (mother of the artist). Marie Puybonnieux, Paris (by descent from the above). Jacques and Pierre Puybonnieux, Paris (by descent from the above, by 1933). Wildenstein & Co. Inc., New York (by 1958).Adele and Arthur Lehman, New York (by 1959). Private collection, New York (by descent from the above, circa 1965); sale, Christie's, New York, 21 October 1980, lot 209. Herbert Black, Montreal (acquired at the above sale). Gallery Art Point, Tokyo (1987).Private collection, Japan (circa 2003). Anon. (acquired from the above, circa 2008); sale, Sotheby's, New York, 7 November 2013, lot 126. Private collection, London (acquired at the above sale). Acquired from the above by the present owner. Literature J. de Laprade, George Seurat, Monaco, 1945, p. 2 (illustrated). H. Dorra and J. Rewald, Seurat: L'oeuvre peint, biographie et catalogue critique, Paris, 1959, p. 37, no. 38 (illustrated). C.M. de Hauke, Seurat et son oeuvre, Paris, 1961, vol. I, p. 6, no. 11 (illustrated, p. 7). J. Rewald, The History of Impressionism, New York, 1961, p. 509 (illustrated in color; titled Men Building a Fence).C. Virch, The Adele and Arthur Lehman Collection, New York, 1965, pp. 75-76 (illustrated, p. 76; titled Men Building a Fence). A. Chastel and F. Minervino, Tout l'oeuvre peint de Seurat, Milan, 1971 (illustrated in color, pl. III A). Exhibited Paris, La Gazette des Beaux-Arts, Seurat et ses amis: La suite de l'Impressionnisme, December 1933-January 1934, no. 165.The Art Institute of Chicago and New York, The Museum of Modern Art, Seurat: Paintings and Drawings, January-May 1958, p. 27, no. 32.
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