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Study for "La Grande Jatte"
Georges Seurat1884/1885
National Gallery of Art, Washington DC
Washington, DC, United States
Details
- Title: Study for "La Grande Jatte"
- Creator: Georges Seurat
- Date Created: 1884/1885
- Physical Dimensions: overall: 15.9 x 25 cm (6 1/4 x 9 13/16 in.) framed: 33.3 x 41.9 x 5.7 cm (13 1/8 x 16 1/2 x 2 1/4 in.)
- Provenance: (Bernheim-Jeune, Paris). (Alex Reid & Lefèvre, Glasgow and London).[1] Percy Moore Turner [died c. 1951], London, and Oxnead, Gerrards Cross, Buckingham, by 1933 until at least 1937.[2] (Wildenstein & Co., Inc., London, New York, and Paris); Capt. Edward H. Molyneux [1891-1974], London and Paris, probably by 1943;[3] sold 15 August 1955 to Ailsa Mellon Bruce [1901-1969], New York; bequest 1970 to NGA. [1] Reid & Lefèvre handled several sketches for La Grande Jatte of these same dimension, according to the Lefèvre archives, Hyman Kreitman Research Centre, Tate Britain, London, TGA 2002/11. [2] Lent by Turner to exhibitions in London in 1933 and 1937. [3] According to Rewald and Dorra, _Seurat_, Paris, 1959: no. 109, Molyneux acquired from Wildenstein in 1943.
- Rights: CC0
- Medium: oil on wood
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