Public collection via the Art Institute of Chicago
AT-00006052Academic Male Nude
Provenance
Estate of the artist. Mme Léopold Appert. Private collection, France. Sold by James Goodman, New York, to Richard and Mary L. Gray, Chicago, Dec. 13, 1968; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 2019.
Exhibition history
David and Alfred Smart Gallery, University of Chicago, Alumni Who Collect, Volume 1: Drawings from the 16th Century to the Present, 1982, pp. 9, 51, cat. 54 (not ill.). Art Institute of Chicago, Gray Collection: Seven Centuries of Art, Sept. 25, 2010–Jan. 2, 2011, cat. 68 (ill.). The Art Institute of Chicago, "Pure Drawing: Seven Centuries of Art from the Gray Collection", January 25 - May 10, 2020, p. 73, fig. 6, p. 141, GC 95, traveled to New York, The Morgan Library, February 19 - June 6, 2021, and Berkeley CA, UC Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, August 4 - November 28, 2021.
Publications
César M. de Hauke, "Seurat et son oeuvre" (Gründ, 1961), vol. 2, pp. 16-17, no. 270 (ill.).
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
- 1877
- Medium
- Black Conté crayon, black chalk, and charcoal, with stumping and erasing, on cream laid paper
- Dimensions
- 63.6 × 48.5 cm (25 1/16 × 19 1/8 in.)
- Type
- Drawing
- Classification
- drawings (visual works)
- Place
- France
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Credit line
- Gift of Richard and Mary L. Gray
- Accession no.
- 2019.865
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