Georges Seurat (1859-1891)
Georges Seurat (1859-1891)

Une Périssoire

Details
Georges Seurat (1859-1891)
Une Périssoire
oil on cradled panel
6 1/8 x 9 7/8 in. (15.6 x 25 cm.)
Painted circa 1887
Provenance
Alexandre Natanson, Paris (by 1908).
Galerie Bernheim-Jeune et Cie., Paris.
Dikran Khan Kelekian, New York; sale, The American Art Association, New York, 30 January 1922, lot 24.
E.J. van Wisselingh & Co., Amsterdam (1931).
The Lefevre Gallery (Alex. Reid & Lefevre, Ltd.), London.
Galerie Ferron, New York.
M. Knoedler & Co., Inc., New York.
Georges Renand, Paris (by 1933); sale, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 20 November 1987, lot 34.
Acquired at the above sale by the family of the present owner.
Literature
L. Cousturier, Georges Seurat, Paris, 1921 (illustrated, pl. 9; dated 1884; with apocryphal signature).
H.E. Field, “The Kelekian Collection,” The Arts, vol. II, no. 3, December 1921, p. 180 (illustrated; with apocryphal signature).
G. Coquiot, Georges Seurat, Paris, 1924, p. 215 (dated 1884).
L. Cousturier, Georges Seurat, Paris, 1926 (illustrated, pl. 12; dated 1884; with apocryphal signature).
J.F. von Deene, “Georges Seurat,” Maandblad voor Beeldende Kunsten, June 1931, p. 176 (illustrated; with apocryphal signature).
D.-C. Rich, Seurat and the Evolution of La Grande Jatte, Chicago, 1935, p. 60, nos. 45 and 20 (illustrated, pl. 58; with apocryphal signature).
J. de Laprade, Georges Seurat, Monaco, 1945 (illustrated in color, pl. 49; with apocryphal signature).
J. Rewald, The History of Impressionism, New York, 1946, p. 384 (illustrated; titled A Boat on the Seine and dated circa 1885).
H. Dorra and J. Rewald, Seurat, Paris, 1959, p. 107, no. 100 (illustrated; dated circa 1884; with apocryphal signature).
C.M. de Hauke, Seurat et son oeuvre, Paris, 1961, vol. I, p. 128, no. 174 (illustrated, p. 129; with apocryphal signature).
P. Courthion, Georges Seurat, New York, 1968, p. 124 (illustrated in color, p. 125; titled The Canoe; with apocryphal signature).
A. Chastel and F. Minervino, L’opera completa di Seurat, Milan, 1972, p. 105, no. 175 (illustrated, p. 104; with apocryphal signature).
C. Grenier, Seurat, Catalogo competo dei dipinti, Florence, 1990, p. 112, no. 174 (illustrated in color; with apocryphal signature).
Exhibited
Paris, Galerie Bernheim-Jeune et Cie., Georges Seurat, December 1908-January 1909, p. 8, no. 42 (dated 1884).
New York, Brooklyn Museum, Paintings by Modern French Masters, Representing the Post-Impressionists and Their Predecessors, March 1921.
Amsterdam, E.J. van Wisselingh & Co., La Peinture française aux XIXe et XXe Siècles, April-May 1931, no. 49 (dated 1888).
Paris, Gazette des Beaux-Arts, Seurat et ses amis, la suite de l’Impressionnisme, December 1933-January 1934.
Paris, Galerie Paul Rosenberg, Seurat, February 1936, no. 44 (dated 1886).
Paris, Exposition Universelle, Chefs-d’oeuvre de l’Art Française, 1937, no. 412.
Paris, Galerie Charpentier, Le paysage français de Corot à nos jours, June 1942, no. 162.
Paris, Galerie Max Kaganovitch, Oeuvres choisies du XIXe siècle, May-July 1950 (titled Paysage).
Paris, Galerie de la Gazette des Beaux-Arts, Tableaux des collections parisiennes, April-May 1955, no. 111.
Paris, Musée Jacquemart-André, Seurat, November-December 1957, no. 9.
The Art Institute of Chicago and New York, The Museum of Modern Art, Seurat, January- May 1958, p. 52, no. 117 (illustrated; with apocryphal signature).
Paris, Musée national d’art moderne, Les sources du XXe siècle, Les Arts en Europe de 1884 à 1914, November 1960-January 1961, p. 219, no. 657 (dated circa 1884).
Saint-Germain-en-Laye, Musée du Prieuré, L'Eclatement de l'impressionnisme, symbolistes et nabis, Maurice Denis et son temps, October 1982-January 1983, p. 73, no. 15 (illustrated; with apocryphal signature).

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