
Public collection via the Art Institute of Chicago
AT-00003198Tree Trunks (study for La Grande Jatte)
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.
Data retrieved from the Art Institute of Chicago on October 8, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.
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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