Study after "The Models"

1888

Georges Seurat

Artist, French, 1859 - 1891

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    pen and brown ink over graphite on wove paper

  • Credit Line

    The Armand Hammer Collection

  • Dimensions

    overall: 26.4 x 16.1 cm (10 3/8 x 6 5/16 in.)

  • Accession

    1991.217.69

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Emile Seurat, Paris; Alexandre Natanson [1867-1936], Paris; Galerie Bolette-Natanson, Paris; Jean-Charles Moreux, Paris; Mme Jean-Charles Moreux, Paris; (Wildenstein & Co., Inc., New York); Norton Simon, Los Angeles (sale, Parke-Bernet Galleries, Inc., NewYork, 5 May 1971, no. 46); Armand Hammer Collection, Los Angeles; gift to NGA, 1991.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1900

  • Seurat, La Revue Blanche, Paris, 1900 (hors catalogue).

1908

  • Rétrospective Georges Seurat, Galerie Bernheim-Jeune, Paris, 1908-1909, no. 197.

1926

  • Les Dessins de Seurat, Galerie Bernheim-Jeune, Paris, 1926, no. 114.

1935

  • Seurat, Galerie Syrie Maugham, Bolette Natanson, London, 1935.

1936

  • Georges Seurat, Galerie Paul Rosenberg, Paris, 1936, no. 130 (suppl.).

  • Peintres de la Revue Blanche, Galerie Bolette Natanson, Paris, "Les Cadres", 1936, no. 50, suppl.

1957

  • Seurat, Musée Jacquemart-André, Paris, 1957, no. 55.

1971

  • Exhibited with the Armand Hammer collection from 1971, beginning with the Oklahoma Art Center, Oklahoma City; except Fine Arts Gallery of San Diego, 1971.

1974

  • Recent Acquisitions and Promised Gifts, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1974, no. 73.

1991

  • Georges Seurat, 1859-1891, Grand Palais, Paris and Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1991, no. 192.

2007

  • Georges Seurat: The Drawings. The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 2007, 171, 173, 233 (color repro.), 253, no. 125 (Jodi Hauptman).

Bibliography

1888

  • Adam, Paul. "Les Impressionistes à l'Exposition des Indépendants," La Vie Moderne (April 15, 1888), p.229.

1922

  • Lhote, André. Georges Seurat, Rome, 1922, p.II.

1927

  • Fels, Florent. "Les Dessins de Georges Seurat", L'Amour de l'Art, no. 1 (January, 1927), p.43.

1928

  • Kahn, Gustave. Les Dessins de Georges Seurat, Paris, 1928, vol. 2, plate 98.

  • Waldemar, George. Seurat et le divisionnisme. Paris, 1928, 15.

1936

  • Thadée Natanson, "Sur une exposition des peintres de la Revue Blanche,", Arts et métiers graphiques, no. 54 (August 15, 1936), p. 16.

1941

  • Robert J. Goldwater, "Some Aspects of the Development of Seurat's Style," Art Bulletin, vol. 23, no. 2 (June, 1941), pp. 117-30, fig. 4.

1946

  • Rewald, John. Georges Seurat, New York, 1943, no. 80.

1948

  • Rewald, John. Georges Seurat, Paris, 1948, no. 61.

1959

  • Dorra, Henri, and John Rewald. Seurat, l'oeuvre peint, biographie et catalogue critique. Paris, 1959: 222, no. 179a.

1961

  • Hauke, C.M. de. Seurat et son oeuvre. Paris, 1961: 2:254, no. 665.

1962

  • Herbert, Robert L. Seurat's Drawings. New York, 1962: 21.

1971

  • Kahn, G. The Drawings of Georges Seurat. 1971 translation and reprint of 1928 edition. no. 118, p. x.

1972

  • Chastel, André. Seurat. Milan, 1972: 105-06, no. D47.

  • Hautecoeur, L. Georges Seurat, Milan, 1972, pp. 42-43, pl. 2.

1985

  • Thomson, Richard. Seurat. Oxford, 1985: 141.

1990

  • Rewald, John. Seurat, A Biography. New York, 1990: 147.

1991

  • Anne Distel, Seurat, Bienne, Switzerland, 1991, no. 16.

  • Cachin, Françoise. Seurat, Le Rêve de l'Art-Science. Paris, 1991: 89.

  • Michael F. Zimmerman, Seurat and the Art Theory of his Time, 1991, p. 345.

1999

  • Düchting, Hajo. Georges Seurat, 1859-1891:The Master of Pointillism. Bonn, 1999: 52.

Inscriptions

lower left in ink: Seurat.

Wikidata ID

Q64571667

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