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    Museum collections / Art Institute of Chicago
    Tree Trunks (study for La Grande Jatte)
    Georges Seurat. Tree Trunks (study for La Grande Jatte), 1884. The Art Institute of Chicago. Public domain (CC0).

    Public collection via the Art Institute of Chicago

    AT-00003198

    Tree Trunks (study for La Grande Jatte)

    by Georges Seurat

    View at the Art Institute of Chicago

    Provenance

    Estate of the artist, Paris [posthumous inventory, drawing no. 358; New York, 1992]; by descent to Mme. Léopold Appert (1881-1969), Paris [New York 1991]; private collection, Paris, by 1961 [de Hauke 1961]. Sold by Phillipe Brame, Paris, to the Art Institute, 1987.

    Exhibition history

    New York, The Frick Collection, "From Pontormo to Seurat: Drawings Recently Acquired by The Art Institute of Chicago," April 23-July 7, 1991, n.p., cat. 53; traveled to The Art Institute of Chicago, September 10, 1991-January 5, 1992. The Art Institute of Chicago, "Seurat and the Making of 'La Grande Jatte', June 16-September 19, 2004, cat. 46, p. 72 (ill.) New York, Museum of Modern Art, “Georges Seurat: The Drawings,” October 28, 2007–January 7, 2008, pp. 208, and 253, cat. 116 (ill.), cat. by Jodi Hauptman, et. al.

    Publications

    Henri Dorra and John Rewald, Seurat (Paris, 1959), p. 123, no. 116a (ill.). Cesár de Hauke, Seurat et son oeuvre (Paris 1961), p. 200, no. 620 (ill.). Robert L. Herbert, Seurat’s Drawings (New York, 1962), pp. 110, 182, no. 97 (ill.). John Russell, Seurat (New York, 1965), pp. 139, 279, no. 129. André Chastel and Fiorella Minervino, L’Opera completa di Seurat (Milan, 1972), no. D. 17 (ill.). Jean Leymarie, Monnier, and Rose, Drawing (New York, 1979), p. 197 (ill.). "From Maineri to Miró: The Regenstein Collection Since 1975," The Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies 26:1 (2000), p. 82-83, no. 36 (ill.) Suzanne Folds McCullagh, “‘A Lasting Monument’: The Regenstein Collection at the Art Institute of Chicago,” The Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies 26, 1 (2000), p. 13.

    Open-access museum data

    This record comes from the open-access collection data that the Art Institute of Chicago publishes for unrestricted use (Creative Commons Zero). Art Trackers shows a selection of the museum's published fields. The Art Institute of Chicago is not an Art Trackers client and has not reviewed or endorsed this page; the museum's own website is the authoritative record.

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    Quick Overview

    Artist
    Georges Seurat / French, 1859-1891
    Date
    1884
    Medium
    Black Conté crayon on ivory laid paper
    Dimensions
    47.4 × 61.5 cm (18 11/16 × 24 1/4 in.)
    Type
    Drawing
    Classification
    conté crayon
    Place
    France
    Department
    Prints and Drawings
    Credit line
    Helen Regenstein Collection
    Accession no.
    1987.184

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