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Elaine: The Collection of Elaine Wynn
GEORGES SEURAT (1859-1891)
L'Hôtel des Invalides, vue d'un parapet de la Seine
Details
GEORGES SEURAT (1859-1891)
L'Hôtel des Invalides, vue d'un parapet de la Seine
stamped with signature 'Seurat' (Lugt 2282a; lower right)
black Conté crayon on paper laid down on paper
12 ¼ x 9 ½ in. (31.2 x 23.3 cm.)
Drawn circa 1881
L'Hôtel des Invalides, vue d'un parapet de la Seine
stamped with signature 'Seurat' (Lugt 2282a; lower right)
black Conté crayon on paper laid down on paper
12 ¼ x 9 ½ in. (31.2 x 23.3 cm.)
Drawn circa 1881
Provenance
Estate of the artist.
Alfred Gold, Paris.
Galerie de Hauke & Co., New York (acquired from the above).
Arthur Sachs and Marian Francois-Poncet, Paris and New York (acquired from the above, 19 March 1929); sale, Sotheby-Parke Bernet, Inc., New York, 28 November 1973, lot 11.
Acquired by the late owner, circa 1990s.
Alfred Gold, Paris.
Galerie de Hauke & Co., New York (acquired from the above).
Arthur Sachs and Marian Francois-Poncet, Paris and New York (acquired from the above, 19 March 1929); sale, Sotheby-Parke Bernet, Inc., New York, 28 November 1973, lot 11.
Acquired by the late owner, circa 1990s.
Literature
G. Kahn, Les dessins de Georges Seurat, Paris, 1928 (illustrated, pl. 126; titled Etude d'arbres).
G. Seligman, The Drawings of Georges Seurat, New York, 1947, p. 68 (illustrated, fig. 35).
C.M. de Hauke, Seurat et son œuvre: Catalogue des dessins, Paris, 1961, vol. II, p. 76, no. 461 (illustrated, p. 77).
D. Sutton, "The Revolutionary Quartet" in Apollo, vol. LXXVII, no. 6, June 1963, p. 480 (illustrated).
A. Chastel and F. Minervino, Tout l'oeuvre peint de Seurat, Paris, 1973, p. 113, no. D 107 (illustrated).
E. Fahy, ed., The Wrightsman Pictures, exh. cat., The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 2005, p. 424.
G. Seligman, The Drawings of Georges Seurat, New York, 1947, p. 68 (illustrated, fig. 35).
C.M. de Hauke, Seurat et son œuvre: Catalogue des dessins, Paris, 1961, vol. II, p. 76, no. 461 (illustrated, p. 77).
D. Sutton, "The Revolutionary Quartet" in Apollo, vol. LXXVII, no. 6, June 1963, p. 480 (illustrated).
A. Chastel and F. Minervino, Tout l'oeuvre peint de Seurat, Paris, 1973, p. 113, no. D 107 (illustrated).
E. Fahy, ed., The Wrightsman Pictures, exh. cat., The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 2005, p. 424.
Exhibited
Paris, Galerie Bernheim-Jeune et Cie., Les dessins de Seurat, November-December 1926, no. 147.
New York, Galerie de Hauke & Co., Works by Nineteenth Century and Contemporary French Artists, March 1929, no. 31.
San Francisco, California Palace of the Legion of Honor, 19th Century French Drawings, March-April 1947, p. 88, no. 144 (titled L'Institut).
The Art Institute of Chicago and New York, The Museum of Modern Art, Seurat: Paintings and Drawings, January-May 1958, p. 27, no. 15.
Rotterdam, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen; Paris, Musée de l'Orangerie and New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, French Drawings from American Collections: Clouet to Matisse, July 1958-October 1959, pp. 120-121, no. 184 (illustrated, pl. 172).
Paris, Musée Jacquemart-André, Chefs-d'oeuvre de collections françaises, July-September 1961, no. 87.
Paris, Galerie Charpentier, Chefs-d'oeuvre de collections françaises, July-September 1962, no. 87 (titled L'Institut vu de la rive droite).
Hamburg Kunstverein, Cezanne, Gauguin, Van Gogh, Seurat, May-July 1963, p. 19, no. 108 (illustrated, pl. 19; titled Institut).
New York, Galerie de Hauke & Co., Works by Nineteenth Century and Contemporary French Artists, March 1929, no. 31.
San Francisco, California Palace of the Legion of Honor, 19th Century French Drawings, March-April 1947, p. 88, no. 144 (titled L'Institut).
The Art Institute of Chicago and New York, The Museum of Modern Art, Seurat: Paintings and Drawings, January-May 1958, p. 27, no. 15.
Rotterdam, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen; Paris, Musée de l'Orangerie and New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, French Drawings from American Collections: Clouet to Matisse, July 1958-October 1959, pp. 120-121, no. 184 (illustrated, pl. 172).
Paris, Musée Jacquemart-André, Chefs-d'oeuvre de collections françaises, July-September 1961, no. 87.
Paris, Galerie Charpentier, Chefs-d'oeuvre de collections françaises, July-September 1962, no. 87 (titled L'Institut vu de la rive droite).
Hamburg Kunstverein, Cezanne, Gauguin, Van Gogh, Seurat, May-July 1963, p. 19, no. 108 (illustrated, pl. 19; titled Institut).
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