Oil Sketch for "A Sunday on La Grande Jatte — 1884"

1. The artist (died 1891), Paris [panneau no. 87, posthumous inventory, dated May 3, 1891, reproduced in de Hauke 1961, v.1, 80]. Possibly by descent to the artist’s mother, Ernestine Faivre Seurat (died 1899). Maximilien Luce (died 1941), Paris [Herbert 1992, 129]; by descent to his son, Frédéric Luce, Paris, 1941 [this and the following according to correspondence from Claudine Godts, Wildenstein & Co. Inc., Oct. 14, 2021; copy in curatorial object file]; sold to Wildenstein and Co., Paris, May 1955 ; transferred to Wildenstein and Co., New York, Oct. 1955; sold to Leigh B. Block (died 1987) and Mary Lasker Block (died 1981), Chicago, Nov. 1955 [according to the above and correspondence from Susan Stein, Aug. 11, 2004; copy in curatorial object file]; bequeathed to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1981.

Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.

• Munich, Kunstverein, Französische Künstler, Sep. 1906, cat. 100; Frankfurt Kunstverein, Oct. 1906; Dresden Kunstverein, Nov. 1906; Galerie E. Arnold, Kalsruhe Kunstverein, Dec. 1906; Stuttgart Kunstverein, Jan. 1907.
• Paris, Galerie Jacques Rodrigues-Henriqués, Quelques oeuvres échangées jadis entre eux, May 17-June 3, 1938.
• Art Institute of Chicago, Seurat: Paintings and Drawings, Jan. 16-Mar. 7, cat. 94 as Sketch for ‘La Grande Jatte’; New York, The Museum of Modern Art, Mar. 24 – May 11, 1958.
• Washington, National Gallery of Art, 100 European Paintings and Drawings from the Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Leigh B. Block, May 4-June 11, 1967, cat. 21; Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Sep. 21-Nov. 2, 1967.
• Boston, Museum of Fine Arts, One Hundred European Paintings and Drawings from the Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Leigh B. Block, Feb. 2-Apr. 14, 1968, cat. 22 (ill.).
• Paris, Galeries Nationales du Grand Palais, Seurat, 1859-1891, Apr. 9-Aug. 12, 1991; New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Sep. 24-Jan. 12, 1992, cat. 127, as Petite esquisse (Sketch with Many Figures).
• Cologne, Wallraf-Richartz-Museum, Pointillismus, Sep. 6-Nov. 1997, cat. 132; Lausanne, Fondaton de l’Hermitage, Jan. 23-May 1998 [Cologne Only].
• Art Institute of Chicago, Seurat and the Making of ‘La Grande Jatte,’ June 16-Sep. 19, 2004, cat. 48, pp. 74 (color ill.), 75, 267 (color ill.), 274, as Sketch with Many Figures (study for La Grande Jatte), 1884.
• Fort Worth, Tex., Kimbell Museum of Art, The Impressionists: Master Paintings from the Art Institute of Chicago, June 29–Nov. 2, 2008, cat. 51 (ill.).
• Art Institute of Chicago, Bridget Riley Drawings: From the Artist’s Studio, Sep. 17, 2022-Jan 16, 2023, not in cat.; Los Angeles,, Hammer Museum, Feb. 5-May 14, 2023; New York, Morgan Library and Museum, June 23-Oct. 8, 2023 [Chicago only].
• Art Institute of Chicago, Van Gogh and the Avant-Garde: The Modern Landscape, May 14-Sep. 4, 2023, fig. 73; Amsterdam, Van gogh Museum, Van Gogh Along the Seine, Oct. 13-Jan. 14, 2024.

• John Rewald, Post-Impressionism: From Van Gogh to Gauguin (New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 1956), p. 85 (ill.), as Study for La Grande Jatte, c. 1884.
• Robert Herbert, “Seurat in Chicago and New York,” The Burlington Magazine, May 1958, pp. 151, 153 (pl. 11).
• Henri Dorra and John Rewald, Seurat: l’oeuvre peint biographie et catalogue critique (Paris: Les Beaux –Arts, 1959), cat. 119 (ill.), as Vue générale avec groupement de personnages, étude pour ‘La Grande Jatte,’ 1884-85.
• C. M. de Hauke, Seurat et son oeuvre (Paris: Gründ, 1961), no. 128 (ill.), as Petite esquisse.
• André Chastel and Fiorella Minervino, L’opera completa di Seurat (Milano: Rizzoli, 1972), ill. 128, pl. 19A, as Gruppi di figure alla ‘Grande Jatte.’
• The Burlington Magazine 976, v. 76 (July 1984), p. 464 (ill. 88).
• Richard Brettell, French Impressionists (Chicago, 1987), pp. 89, 91 (ill.), 119.
• James Wood, ed., Impressionism and Post-Impressionism in The Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago 2000), p. 78 (ill.), as Oil Sketch for La Grande Jatte, 1884.
• The Age of Impressionism at the Art Institute of Chicago (New Haven and London, 2008), cat. 51, pp. 112-13 (ill.).
• Bregje Gerritse and Jacquelyn N. Coutre, Van Gogh and the Avant-Garde: Along the Seine, exh. cat. (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2023), 106 fig. 73, 107, 198.

A Sunday on La Grande Jatte — 1884

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Final Study for "Bathers at Asnières"

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Seated Woman with a Parasol (study for La Grande Jatte)

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Trees (study for La Grande Jatte)

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Woman Walking with a Parasol (study for La Grande Jatte)

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Tree Trunks (study for La Grande Jatte)

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Woman with a Muff

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Roses in a Vase

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