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Final Study for "Bathers at Asnières"
Georges Seurat · 1883
Provenance
Ownership history
- The artist; given to Robert Caze (died 1886), Paris [this and the following according to Dorra and Rewald 1959, 100; see also Seurat's list of owners of his works where Caze is named as the owner of "Esquisse de la baignade," reprinted in New York 1991, 380]; by descent to his widow, Louise Caze (died 1887), Paris. Gary. W.H. Sprenger, Paris and Essen [according to email from Claudine Godts, Wildenstein, Oct. 28, 2021; copy in curatorial object file]; Wildenstein and Co., New York, by 1948; sold to David M. Levy (died 1977) and Adele R. Levy (died 1960), New York, 1949; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1962.
Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.
Exhibitions
Exhibition history
- New York, Durand-Ruel Galleries, What they said" - Postscript to Art Criticism; For the Benefit of the Museum of Modern Art on its 20th Anniversary, November 28 - December 17, 1949, cat. 6.
- Pittsburgh, Carnegie Institute, French Painting 1100-1900, October 18-December 2, 1951, cat. 92.
- New York, Wildenstein & Co., A Loan Exhibition of Seurat and His Friends, November 18-December 26, 1953, cat. 4 (ill.)
- Art Institute of Chicago, Seurat: Paintings and Drawings, January 16-March 7, 1958, cat. 57; New York, Museum of Modern Art, March 24-May 11, 1958.
- New York, Guggenheim Museum, Neo-Impressionism, February 7 - April 8, 1968, no cat. no.
- Paris, Galeries Nationales du Grand Palais, Georges Seurat 1859-1891, April 9–August 12, 1991; New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, September 24, 1991 - January 12, 1992, cat. 110.
- London, The National Gallery, Seurat and the Bathers, July 2-September 28, 1997, cat. 60.
- Art Institute of Chicago, Seurat and the Making of ‘La Grande Jatte,’ June 16-September 19, 2004, cat. 20.
- Paris, France, Musée d'Orsay, Le Néo-Impressionnisme de Seurat á Paul Klee, March 14- July 10, 2005.
- New York, The Museum of Modern Art, George Seurat: The Drawings, October 9, 2007- January 7, 2008, pl. 103.
- Fort Worth, Tex., Kimbell Museum of Art, The Impressionists: Master Paintings from the Art Institute of Chicago, June 29–November 2, 2008, cat. 50 (ill.).
- Zurich, Kunsthaus, Georges Seurat: Figures in Space, October 2, 2009-January 17, 2020; Frankfurt, Schirn Kunsthalle, February 11-May 9, 2010.
Literature
Published references
- Henri Dorra and John Rewald, Seurat: Seurat: l’oeuvre peint biographie et catalogue critique (Paris: Les Beaux-arts, 1959), 100 no. 97 (ill.).
- Ceasar M. de Hauke, Seurat et Son Oeuvre (Paris: Grund, 1961), 58-59 no. 93.
- Art Institute of Chicago Annual Report 1962-1963 (Chicago: Art Institute, 1963), 13.
- W. Homer, Seurat and the Science of Painting, 1963.
- Art Institute of Chicago Quarterly, vol. 57, no. 4 (1963-64), 4 (ill.), 5.
- J. Rewald, Post Impressionism from Van Gogh to Gauguin, 3rd ed., revised (New York, 1978), 74 (ill.).
- Richard R. Brettell, French Impressions (New York: Art Institute and Harry Abrams1987), 87.
- Richard Tilston, Seurat (London: Bison Books, 1991), 70-71.
- Sarah Carr-Gomm, Seurat (London: Studio Editions, 1993), 16 (ill.), 142, no. 16.
- Paul Smith, Seurat and the Avant-Garde (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1997), 75, 76 fig. 90.
- Impressionism and Post-Impressionism in the Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago: Art Institute, 2000), 77 (ill.).
- Sylvie Patry, Le Néo-Imoressionnisme de Seurat á Paul Klee, Exh. cat. (Réunion des Musées Nationaux, 2005), 16, 78, 108, 109 (ill.).
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