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    Trees (study for La Grande Jatte)
    Georges Seurat. Trees (study for La Grande Jatte), 1884. The Art Institute of Chicago. Public domain (CC0).

    Public collection via the Art Institute of Chicago

    AT-00005810

    Trees (study for La Grande Jatte)

    by Georges Seurat

    View at the Art Institute of Chicago

    Provenance

    Seurat family [invoice]; by descent to Mme Léopold Appert (1881-1969), Paris [according to New York 1991]; Private Collection, Paris, by 1958-1966 [Chicago 1958; according to New York 1991]; sold to Wildenstein and Company New York, March 1966 [according to New York 1991]; sold to the Art Institute, 1966.

    Exhibition history

    Paris, Jaquemart-André, "Seurat," November-December 1957, no. 29 The Art Institute of Chicago, "Seurat: Paintings and Drawings," January 16-March 7, 1958, cat. 71, by Daniel Catton Rich; also traveled to New York, the Museum of Modern Art, March 24-May 11, 1958. Paris, Musée Jaquemart-André, "Chef d’Oeuvre des Collections Françaises," 1961, no. 90. Palm Beach, Fla., Society of Four Arts, "Drawings from The Art Institute of Chicago," January 5–27, 1974, cat. 42 (ill.). The Art Institute of Chicago, "The Helen Regenstein Collection of European Drawings," 1974, pp. 164-65, cat. 81 (ill.), cat. by Harold Joachim. Paris, Musée du Louvre, "Dessins français de l’Art Institute de Chicago de Watteau à Picasso," October 15, 1976-January 17, 1977, n.p., cat. 74 (ill.). Frankfurt am Main, Germany, Städtische Galerie im Städelschen Kunstinstitut, "Französische Zeichnungen aus dem Art Institute of Chicago," February 10-April 10, 1977, pp. 142-43, cat. 68 (ill.). The Art Institute of Chicago, "Great Drawings from The Art Institute of Chicago: The Harold Joachim Years 1958-1983," July 24-September 30, 1985, pp. 166-67, cat. 76 (ill.), cat. by Martha Tedeschi. New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, "Seurat," September 24, 1991-January 12, 1992, cat. 123, cat. by Robert L. Herbert; also traveled to Paris, the Galeries Nationales du Grand Palais, April 9-August 12, 1991. The Art Institute of Chicago, "Seurat and the Making of 'La Grande Jatte'," June 16-September 19, 2004, p. 71, cat. 45 (ill.). Netherlands, Rijksmuseum Kröller-Müller, "Seurat: Master of Pointillism", May 23 - September 7, 2014, hors. cat.

    Publications

    Robert L. Herbert, "Seurat in Chicago and New York," The Burlington Magazine C: 662 (May 1958), p. 151, no. 12 (ill.). Henri Dorra and John Rewald, Seurat: l’oeuvre peint (Paris, 1959), p. 123, no. 116a (ill.). Joseph Émile Muller, Seurat dessins (Paris, 1960), pl. 17. Cesar de Hauke, Seurat et son oeuvre, 2 (Paris, 1961), p. 200, no. 619 (ill.). Robert L. Herbert, Seurat’s Drawings (New York, 1962), pp. 110, 113 and 182, no. 98 (ill.). John Russell, Seurat (New York, 1965), p. 139, no. 129. John Maxon, The Art Institute of Chicago (London, 1970), pp. 160-161 (ill.). Harold Joachim, French Drawings and Sketchbooks of the Nineteenth Century (Chicago, 1979), p. 97, no. 5F6. Alain Madeleine-Perdrillat, Seurat (New York, 1990), p. 68. 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. Martha Tedeschi, “Study of Trees, 1884,” The Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies, 26, 1 (2000), pp. 82-83, cat. 36, fig. 28.

    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 white laid paper, laid down on cream board
    Dimensions
    62 × 47.5 cm (24 7/16 × 18 3/4 in.)
    Type
    Drawing
    Classification
    conté crayon
    Style
    Post-Impressionism
    Place
    France
    Department
    Prints and Drawings
    Credit line
    Helen Regenstein Collection
    Accession no.
    1966.184

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