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

1. Félix Fénéon, Paris, by 1905; sold through Henri Pierre Roche (1879-1959) to John Quinn (1870-1924), New York, 1923; Quinn estate, to 1925. Arthur B. Davies (1862-1928), New York; Davies estate; sold, American Art Galleries, New York, April 16-17, 1929, Davies estate sale, lot 402, to C. W. Kraushaar Galleries, New York. Abby Aldrich Rockefeller (1874-1948), New York, by 1934 [all provenance according to New York 1991]; bequeathed to the Art Institute, 1949 [on loan to the Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1949-1999; accessioned by the Art Institute, 1999].

Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.

• Paris, Salon des Artistes Indépendants-Rétrospective incorporée au Salon, Grandes Serres de la Ville de Paris, XXI, March 24-April 30, 1905, cat. 6.
• Paris, Galerie Bernheim-Jeune, "Rétrospecitve Georges Seurat," December 14, 1908-January 9, 1909, cat. 193.
• New York, Galerie C.W. Kraushaar, "Modern French Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings," October 5-28, 1929, cat. 55.
• New York, The Museum of Modern Art, "First Loan Exhibition: Cézanne, Gauguin, Seurat, Van Gough," November 8-December 7, 1929, cat. 67 (ill.).
• Cambridge, Mass., The Fogg Art Museum, "Loan Exhibition of French Drawings and Prints of the Nineteenth Century," 1934, cat. 66.
• New York, The Museum of Modern Art, "Modern Drawings," February 1944, p. 97, cat. 44.
• New York, Knoedler Gallery, "Seurat: Paintings and Drawings," April 19-May 7, 1949, n.p., cat. 51.
• Paris, Museé de L'Orangérie, "De David à Toulouse-Lautrec," 1955, cat. 91, pl. 88.
• The Art Institute of Chicago, "French Drawings: Masterpieces of Seven Centuries," 1955-1956, cat. 170.
• The Art Institute of Chicago, "Seurat: Paintings and Drawings," January 16-March 7, 1958, p. 30, cat. 85; also traveled to The Museum of Modern Art, New York, March 24-May 11, 1958.
• Paris, Musée de L'Orangerie, "De Clouet à Matisse," 1958-1959, n.p., cat. 188, pl. 190.
• New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, "Seurat: Drawings and Oil Sketches from New York Collections," September 29-November 27, 1977, n.p., cat. 29.

• Lucie Cousturier, Georges Seurat (Paris, 1926), no. 59 (ill.).
• Christian Zervos, "Un Dimanche à La Grande Jatte et la technique de Seurat," Cahiers d'Art 9 (1928), p. 370 (ill.).
• Daniel Catton Rich, Seurat and the Evolution of "La Grande Jatte" (Chicago, 1935), pp. 53 and 22, pl. III.
• Jacques Laprade, George Seurat (1945), p. IX.
• Georges Seligman, The Drawings of Georges Seurat (New York, 1947), p. 49, pl. VII, cat. 9
• Paul J. Sachs, Modern Prints and Drawings: A Guide to a Better Understanding of Modern Draughtsmanship (New York, 1954), p. 45 (ill.).
• Alfred H. Barr, Jr., Masters of Modern Art (New York, 1954), p. 24 (ill.).
• Joseph-Émile Muller, Seurat, Dessins (Paris, 1960), no. 20 (ill.).
• César de Hauke, Seurat et son oeuvre (Paris, 1961), no. 629.
• Hideji Takashima, Manet, Monet, Seurat (Tokyo: Holp Shuppan 1970), chapter 2 (ill.).
• Carol Vogel, "4 Prized Drawings, No Longer Modern, Have Left MOMA," The New York Times (October 26, 1998), pp. A1 and A23.
• Robert L. Kaiser, "A fuller view of a genius painter," Chicago Tribune (October 27, 1998), pp. 1 and (ill.).

A Sunday on La Grande Jatte — 1884

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

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Final Study for "Bathers at Asnières"

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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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