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Trees (study for La Grande Jatte)
Georges Seurat · 1884
Provenance
Ownership history
- Seurat family [invoice]; by descent to Mme Léopold Appert (1881-1969), Paris [according to New York 1991]; Private Collection, Paris, by 1958-1966 [Chicago 1958; according to New York 1991]; sold to Wildenstein and Company New York, March 1966 [according to New York 1991]; sold to the Art Institute, 1966.
Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.
Exhibitions
Exhibition history
- Paris, Jaquemart-André, "Seurat," November-December 1957, no. 29
- The Art Institute of Chicago, "Seurat: Paintings and Drawings," January 16-March 7, 1958, cat. 71, by Daniel Catton Rich; also traveled to New York, the Museum of Modern Art, March 24-May 11, 1958.
- Paris, Musée Jaquemart-André, "Chef d’Oeuvre des Collections Françaises," 1961, no. 90.
- Palm Beach, Fla., Society of Four Arts, "Drawings from The Art Institute of Chicago," January 5–27, 1974, cat. 42 (ill.).
- The Art Institute of Chicago, "The Helen Regenstein Collection of European Drawings," 1974, pp. 164-65, cat. 81 (ill.), cat. by Harold Joachim.
- Paris, Musée du Louvre, "Dessins français de l’Art Institute de Chicago de Watteau à Picasso," October 15, 1976-January 17, 1977, n.p., cat. 74 (ill.).
- Frankfurt am Main, Germany, Städtische Galerie im Städelschen Kunstinstitut, "Französische Zeichnungen aus dem Art Institute of Chicago," February 10-April 10, 1977, pp. 142-43, cat. 68 (ill.).
- The Art Institute of Chicago, "Great Drawings from The Art Institute of Chicago: The Harold Joachim Years 1958-1983," July 24-September 30, 1985, pp. 166-67, cat. 76 (ill.), cat. by Martha Tedeschi.
- New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, "Seurat," September 24, 1991-January 12, 1992, cat. 123, cat. by Robert L. Herbert; also traveled to Paris, the Galeries Nationales du Grand Palais, April 9-August 12, 1991.
- The Art Institute of Chicago, "Seurat and the Making of 'La Grande Jatte'," June 16-September 19, 2004, p. 71, cat. 45 (ill.).
- Netherlands, Rijksmuseum Kröller-Müller, "Seurat: Master of Pointillism", May 23 - September 7, 2014, hors. cat.
Literature
Published references
- Robert L. Herbert, "Seurat in Chicago and New York," The Burlington Magazine C: 662 (May 1958), p. 151, no. 12 (ill.).
- Henri Dorra and John Rewald, Seurat: l’oeuvre peint (Paris, 1959), p. 123, no. 116a (ill.).
- Joseph Émile Muller, Seurat dessins (Paris, 1960), pl. 17.
- Cesar de Hauke, Seurat et son oeuvre, 2 (Paris, 1961), p. 200, no. 619 (ill.).
- Robert L. Herbert, Seurat’s Drawings (New York, 1962), pp. 110, 113 and 182, no. 98 (ill.).
- John Russell, Seurat (New York, 1965), p. 139, no. 129.
- John Maxon, The Art Institute of Chicago (London, 1970), pp. 160-161 (ill.).
- Harold Joachim, French Drawings and Sketchbooks of the Nineteenth Century (Chicago, 1979), p. 97, no. 5F6.
- Alain Madeleine-Perdrillat, Seurat (New York, 1990), p. 68.
- 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.
- Martha Tedeschi, “Study of Trees, 1884,” The Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies, 26, 1 (2000), pp. 82-83, cat. 36, fig. 28.
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