Georges Seurat (1859-1891)

Hiver en banlieu

Details

Georges Seurat (1859-1891)
Seurat, G.
Hiver en banlieu
oil on panel
6.3/8 x 9 in. (16.3 x 24.8 cm.)
Painted circa 1883

Provenance

Emile Seurat, Paris (by descent from the artist, 1891).
Adam Natanson, Paris.
Alexandre Natanson, Paris (by descent from the above); sale, Htel Drouot, Paris, 16 May 1929, lot 104 (illustrated).
Flix Fnnon, Paris; Estate sale, Htel Drouot, Paris, 30 May 1947, lot 97 (incorrectly illustrated as the following lot).
Frey Collection.
Comtesse de Ganay, Paris.
Antoine Salomon, Paris.
Mrs. Huguette Brs, Paris.
Ian Woodner, New York (acquired from the above, 1989).

Literature

H. Dorra and J. Rewald, Seurat, L'oeuvre peint, biographie et catalogue critique, Paris, 1959, p. 58, no. 61 (illustrated; dated 1882-1884).
C.M. de Hauke, Seurat et son oeuvre, Paris, 1961, vol. I, p. 40, no. 71 (illustrated, p. 41).

Exhibited

Paris, La Revue Blanche, Seurat, March-April 1900.
Paris, Galerie Paul Rosenberg, Seurat, February 1936, no. 10 (as Sous la neige; dated 1882-1884).
London, Wildenstein & Co., Ltd., Seurat and his Contemporaries, January-February 1937, no. 57.
Paris, Galerie Durand-Ruel, Quelques Matres des XVIII et XIX Sicles, 1938, no. 64.
Paris, Muse Jacquemart-Andr, Seurat, November-December 1957, no. 8 (as Effet de neige).
Paris, Galeries Nationales du Grand Palais and New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Seurat, April 1991-January 1992, pp. 122-123, no. 85 (illustrated in color, p. 122; as Effet de neige, Hiver en banlieu).

Lot Essay

In Hiver en banlieu, Seurat "freely sketched a broad snow-covered terrain that looks across the river to a long stretch of buildings punctuated by factory chimneys. Farther back on the left, huge buildings loom out of the thick air. To render the snow, Seurat used an unusually limited palette, mostly white mixed with blue, plus some warmer tones in the sky. The warm brown of the panel, enhanced by dark purplish blue, provides most of the color for the buildings. The blues above look like plumes of industrial smoke, but they may only indicate darker portions of the leaden sky. In the foreground diagonal blue streaks suggest a footpath" (Galeries Nationales du Grand Palais, exh. cat., op. cit., p. 122).

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