Femme casquée

Details

Georges Seurat (1859-1891)
Femme casquée
black chalk on blue-gray paper
18 5/8 x 12 1/8in. (47.3 x 31cm.)
Drawn 1874-1876

Provenance

Estate of the artist
Félix Fénéon, Paris
John Rewald, New York; sale, Sotheby & Co., London, July 7, 1960, lot 114
M. Knoedler & Co., Inc., New York
Hammer Galleries, New York (acquired by Dr. and Mrs. Jerome B. Tichner, 1976)

Literature

H. Dorra and J. Rewald, Seurat, L'oeuvre peint, biographie et catalogue critque, Paris, 1959, fig. 4 (illustrated, p. XXXIV)
C.M. de Hauke, Seurat et son oeuvre, Paris, 1961, no. 247bis (illustrated, p. 11)

Lot Essay

The apocryphal signature on this drawing was very likely applied by the artist's friend, the renowned critic Félix Fénéon, who, with painters Maximilien Luce and Paul Signac, helped to inventory the contents of Seurat's studio, and whose initials and numbering appears on the reverse.