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Tree Trunks (study for La Grande Jatte)
Georges Seurat · 1884
Provenance
Ownership history
- Estate of the artist, Paris [posthumous inventory, drawing no. 358; New York, 1992]; by descent to Mme. Léopold Appert (1881-1969), Paris [New York 1991]; private collection, Paris, by 1961 [de Hauke 1961]. Sold by Phillipe Brame, Paris, to the Art Institute, 1987.
Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.
Exhibitions
Exhibition history
- New York, The Frick Collection, "From Pontormo to Seurat: Drawings Recently Acquired by The Art Institute of Chicago," April 23-July 7, 1991, n.p., cat. 53; traveled to The Art Institute of Chicago, September 10, 1991-January 5, 1992.
- The Art Institute of Chicago, "Seurat and the Making of 'La Grande Jatte', June 16-September 19, 2004, cat. 46, p. 72 (ill.)
- New York, Museum of Modern Art, “Georges Seurat: The Drawings,” October 28, 2007–January 7, 2008, pp. 208, and 253, cat. 116 (ill.), cat. by Jodi Hauptman, et. al.
Literature
Published references
- Henri Dorra and John Rewald, Seurat (Paris, 1959), p. 123, no. 116a (ill.).
- Cesár de Hauke, Seurat et son oeuvre (Paris 1961), p. 200, no. 620 (ill.).
- Robert L. Herbert, Seurat’s Drawings (New York, 1962), pp. 110, 182, no. 97 (ill.).
- John Russell, Seurat (New York, 1965), pp. 139, 279, no. 129.
- André Chastel and Fiorella Minervino, L’Opera completa di Seurat (Milan, 1972), no. D. 17 (ill.).
- Jean Leymarie, Monnier, and Rose, Drawing (New York, 1979), p. 197 (ill.).
- "From Maineri to Miró: The Regenstein Collection Since 1975," The Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies 26:1 (2000), p. 82-83, no. 36 (ill.)
- Suzanne Folds McCullagh, “‘A Lasting Monument’: The Regenstein Collection at the Art Institute of Chicago,” The Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies 26, 1 (2000), p. 13.
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