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The Impressionist Spirit: An Important Private Collection

Georges Seurat

Printemps à la Grande Jatte

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May 17, 12:56 AM GMT

Estimate

600,000 - 800,000 USD

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The Impressionist Spirit: An Important Private Collection

Georges Seurat

1859 - 1891


Printemps à la Grande Jatte

oil on panel

6 by 9 ⅞ in. 15.3 by 24.9 cm.

Executed circa 1884-85.

Estate of the artist

F. Roux (acquired by 1898)

Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 25 November 1898, lot 59 (consigned by the above)

Mme. J.D. (acquired by 1908)

Mme. Camille Platteel, Brussels and Paris

Felix Fénéon, Paris

Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 4 December 1941, lot 75 (consigned by the above)

Léon Salavin, Paris

Wildenstein & Co., New York (acquired from the above in 1972)

Acquired from the above on 7 June 1999 by the present owner

Paris, Baraquement des Tuileries, IIème Salon des Artistes Indépendants, 1886, no. 362 (titled Bords de la Seine (Croqueton))

Paris, Galerie Bernheim-Jeune, Exposition Georges Seurat (1859-1891), 1908-09, no. 48 (titled La Seine vue de la Grande-Jatte and dated 1885)

Paris, Musée Jacquemart-Andre, Seurat, 1957, no. 13 or no. 20 (titled Esquisse pour La Grande Jatte or Paysage)

Paris, Galerie Schmit, Cent ans de peinture française, 1969, no. 113, p. 125, illustrated in color

New York, Wildenstein & Co., Scenes of France, 1976 

Caracas, Museo de Bellas Artes, Cinco Siglos de arte francés, 1977, no. 54, p. 48, illustrated (dated 1884)

Tokyo, Wildenstein, Le Joie de vivre au tournant du siècle, 1991, no. 10, illustrated in color

Lausanne, Fondation de l'Hermitage and Cologne, Wallraf-Richartz-Museum, Pointillisme Sur les traces de Seurat, 1997-98, no. 138, p. 255, pl. 138, illustrated in color (dated circa 1884)

New York, Wildenstein & Co., River Scenes of France: Paintings and Drawings of the 19th and 20th Centuries, 1998

J. Christophe, “Seurat,” Les Hommes d'aujourd'hui, vol. 8, no. 368, March-April 1890

Henri Dorra and John Rewald, Seurat, l’oeuvre peint biographie et catalogue critique, Paris, 1959, no. 107, p. 114, illustrated (titled La Seine vue de la Grande-Jatte ou La Seine au printemps and dated circa 1884)

César M. de Hauke, Seurat et son oeuvre, vol. I, Paris, 1961, no. 132, p. 85, illustrated

André Chastel and Fiorella Minervino, L’Opera completa di Seurat, Milan, 1972, no. 108, illustrated

André Chastel and Fiorella Minervo, Tout l'oeuvre peint de Seurat, Paris, 1973, no. 108, p. 99, illustrated (titled La Seine vue de la Grande-Jatte ou La Seine au printemps)

Sophie Monneret, L’Impressionisme et son époque, vol. I, Paris, 1978, p. 48

Catherine Grenier, Seurat, Catalogo completo dei dipinti, Florence, 1990, no. 110, p. 59, illustrated (titled La Senna vista della Grande-Jatte o La Senna in primavera)

Exh. Cat., Paris, Grand Palais and New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Georges Seurat 1851-1891, 1991-92, p. 404 (titled Bords de la Seine)

Exh. Cat., Otterlo, Kröller-Müller Museum, Seurat—Master of Pointillism, 2014, p. 124, illustrated (titled Bords de la Seine (Croqueton))