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GEORGES SEURAT (1859-1891)
Femme debout, en toilette de ville
black Conté crayon on paper
12 3/8 x 7 3/8 in. (31.5 x 18.7 cm.)
Drawn in 1884-1885
Provenance
André Teissier, Mâcon (1927).
Maurice Renou, Paris.
André Derain, Paris; Estate sale, Galerie Charpentier, Paris, 22 March 1955, lot 11.
Baronne Alix de Rothschild, Paris (by 1959, then by descent).
Galerie Schmit, Paris.
Sarec, S.A., Geneva (acquired from the above, 20 March 1985).
Parana Development Company, Lugano (acquired from the above, 1988).
Galerie Schmit, Paris.
Acquired from the above by the late owner, 2001.
Literature
H. Dorra and J. Rewald, Seurat: L'oeuvre peint, biographie et catalogue critique, Paris, 1959, p. 143, no. 133a (titled Promeneuse, étude pour 'La Grande-Jatte').
C.M. de Hauke, Seurat et son oeuvre, Paris, 1961, p. 202, no. 623 (illustrated, p. 203).
L. Hautecoeur, Seurat, Milan, 1972, p. 89, no. 34 (illustrated).
A. Chastel and F. Minervino, Tout l'oeuvre peint de Seurat, Paris, 1973, p. 101, no. D 34 (illustrated).
R.L. Herbert, Georges Seurat exh. cat., The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1991, p. 179, note 3.
M.F. Zimmerman, Les mondes de Seurat: Son oeuvre et le débat artistique de son temps, Paris, 1991, p. 184, no. 347 (illustrated).
R.L. Herbert, Seurat and the Making of La Grande Jatte, exh. cat., The Art Institute of Chicago, 2004, pp. 264-265, no. H 623 (illustrated, p. 269).
Exhibited
Paris, Galerie Paul Rosenberg, Exposition Seurat, February 1936, no. 120.
Paris, Galerie L.-G. Baugin, Dessins de maitres des XIXe et XXe siècles, May-June 1959.
Paris, Galerie Charpentier, Chefs d'oeuvres de collections françaises, 1962, no. 93.
Seattle, Pivot Art + Culture, A Closer Look: Portraits from the Paul G. Allen Family Collection, December 2016-March 2017.
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