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

Georges Seurat · 1884

Provenance

Ownership history

  1. Arthur B. Davies (1862-1928), New York [de Hauke 1961]. Abby Aldrich Rockefeller (1874-1948), New York, by 1929 [label on former backing]; 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.

Exhibitions

Exhibition history

  • New York, Knoedler, "Seurat: Paintings and Drawings," April-19-May 7, 1949, cat. 51.
  • The Art Institute of Chicago, "Seurat: Paintings and Drawings," January 16-March 7, 1958, pp. 29 and 64, cat. 70 (ill.); also traveled to The Museum of Modern Art, New York, March 24-May 11, 1958.
  • New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, "Seurat: Drawings and Oil Sketches from New York Collections," September 29-November 27, 1977, n.p., cat. 28.
  • New York, The Museum of Modern Art, "A Century of Modern Drawing: 1881-1981," 1981.
  • The Art Institute of Chicago, "Seurat and The Making of 'La Grande Jatte', June 16-September 19, 2004, p. 89, cat. 68 (ill.).
  • New York, Museum of Modern Art, “Georges Seurat: The Drawings,” October 28, 2007–January 7, 2008, pp. 209, and 253, cat. 116 (ill.), cat. by Jodi Hauptman, et. al.
  • The Art Institute of Chicago, "Impressionism, Fashion & Modernity", June 26-September 22, 2013, hors cat.

Literature

Published references

  • Gustave Coquiot, Seurat (Paris, 1924), p. 185.
  • Waldemar George, Seurat et le Divisionnisme (Paris, 1928) (ill.).
  • Daniel Catton Rich, Seurat and the Evolution of "La Grande Jatte" (Chicago, 1935), pp. 53 and 22, pl. II.
  • John Rewald, George Seurat (New York, 1946), no. 67 (ill.).
  • Umbro Apollonio, Disegni di Seurat (Venice, 1947), pl. XI.
  • Joseph-Émile Muller, Seurat, Dessins (Paris, 1960), no. 16 (ill.).
  • César de Hauke, Seurat et son oeuvre (Paris, 1961), pp. 202-203, no. 625 (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 2.
  • Jason Edward Kauffman, "Her will be done," The Art Newspaper 87 (December 1998).
  • "Que Seurat, Seurat," Art & Antiques (March 1999), p. 78.
  • Roberta Smith, “Seurat in Drawings,” The New York Times (December 07, 2007), pp front page and E34

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