HOTUNG | 何東 The Personal Collection of the late Sir Joseph Hotung | Part II: Evening

HOTUNG | 何東 The Personal Collection of the late Sir Joseph Hotung | Part II: Evening

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Georges Seurat

Paysan au travail

Auction Closed

December 7, 05:45 PM GMT

Estimate

400,000 - 600,000 GBP

Lot Details

Description

Georges Seurat

1859 - 1891

Paysan au travail


oil on panel

15.3 by 25cm., 6 by 5⅞in.

Painted circa 1883.

M. Fabre, Paris (until 1938)
Georges Renand, Paris (acquired by 1951)
Private Collection, Paris (by descent from the above)
Paul & Bunny Mellon, Virginia
Stephen Hahn Gallery, New York
Acquired from the above in 1980
Jacques de Laprade, Georges Seurat, Monaco, 1945, illustrated in colour as the frontispiece
Jacques de Laprade, Seurat, Paris, 1951, illustrated in colour n.p. (as dating from 1882)
Henri Dorra & John Rewald, Seurat, L'œuvre peint, Biographie et catalogue critique, Paris, 1959, no. 52, illustrated p. 51 (titled Personnage dans un pré and as dating from circa 1882)
C.M. de Hauke, Seurat et son œuvre, Paris, 1961, vol. I, no. 61, illustrated p. 35
John Russell, Seurat, London, 1965, no. 44, illustrated in colour p. 55
André Chastel & Fiorella Minervino, Tout l'œuvre peint de Seurat, Paris, 1973, no. 49, illustrated p. 94 (titled Personnage dans un pré)
Michael F. Zimmermann, Seurat and the Art Theory of his Time, Antwerp, 1991, no. 124, illustrated p. 86 (titled Figure in a Meadow)