Public collection via the Art Institute of Chicago
AT-00006180The Zone (Outside the City Walls)
Inscriptions
Inscribed verso, center, in blue crayon: “Seurat”; center, in graphite: “3” (underlined)
Provenance
By descent to the artist's brother-in-law, Léon Appert (1837–1925), Paris, 1891; possibly by descent to the artist’s nephew, Maurice-Adrien (1869–1941), Paris, 1925 [Seligmann 1947]. Galerie Knoedler & Co., Paris [according to De Hauke 1961]. Galerie Gérard Frères, Paris [according to De Hauke 1961]. Gustave Goubaux (1876–1957) [according to De Hauke 1961]. Félix Fénéon (1861–1944), Paris, by Jan. 1937 [London 1937]; sold, Paris, Hôtel Drouot, Collection Fénéon, May 30, 1947, lot 40 (ill.). Private Collection, Paris, by 1954 [Paris, 1954]. Alex Loeb, Paris, by 1961–at least 1962 [De Hauke 1961; Herbert 1962]. Galerie Max Kaganovitch, Paris, by May 1966; sold to Abraham (1900–1975) and Nadia (Nehama) Jaglom (née Shoenberg; 1900–2004), New York, by June 2, 1969 [Abraham Jaglom diary entry]; by descent to private collection, New York; sold, New York, Sotheby's, May 3, 2005, lot 48; to the present owner; offered through Daxer & Marschall Kunsthandel, Munich, to the Art Institute, 2018.
Exhibition history
Paris, Galerie Georges Aubry, Aquarelles, pastels et dessins des Maitres du XIXe siècle, 1931, cat. 75 (as La Grève). Paris, Galerie Paul Rosenberg, Seurat, Feb. 3–29, 1936, cat. 102. London, Wildenstein and Co, Seurat and his Contemporaries, Jan. 20–Feb. 27, 1937, cat. 67, p. 27. Zurich, Galerie Aktuaryus, Le Néo-Impressionnisme, 1937, cat. 13. London, Leicester Galleries, Artists Who Died Young, Mar.–Apr. 1938, cat. 31, p. 14. Paris, Musée National d'Art Moderne, Le dessin de Toulouse-Lautrec aux Cubistes, 1954, cat. 191, p. 37. Paris, Galerie Max Kaganovitch, Les 30 ans de la Galerie Max Kaganovitch: Dessins, aquarelles, tableaux, sculptures des XIXe et XXe siècles, May 4–June 18, 1966, cat. 93 (ill.). New York, The Museum of Modern Art, Georges Seurat, The Drawings, Oct. 28, 2007–Jan. 7, 2008, cat. 62, pp. 128 (color ill.) and 251. New York, The Museum of Modern Art, "Félix Fénéon (1861-1944)", August 27, 2020 - January 3, 2021, p. 87, pl. 25, cat. by Starr Figura, et. al. The Art Institute of Chicago, "Bridget Riley Drawings: From the Artist's Studio", September 17, 2022 - January 16, 2023.
Publications
Gotthard Jedlicka, “Die Zeichnungen Seurats,” Galerie und Sammler (Oct.–Nov. 1937), p. 149 (ill.). George Seligmann, The Drawings of Georges Seurat (New York: Curt Valentin, 1947), no. 32, pp. 23 and 68. Les Marques de Collections de Dessins & d’Estampes (The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, 1956), p. 136. Cesar M. de Hauke, Seurat et son œuvre, II (Gründ: Paris, 1961), no. 521, pp. 114–15 (ill.). Robert L. Herbert, Seurat’s Drawings (New York: Shorewood, 1962), no. 165, p. 186 (ill.). André Chastel and Fiorella Minervino, Tout l'œuvre peint de Seurat (Paris: Flammarion, 1973), no. D128, p. 114 (ill.) (as Fillette sur une Plage. Le Port). Daxer & Marschall, Recent Acquisitions, Catalogue XXV (Munich, 2018), pp. 82–83 (color 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
- 1882–83
- Medium
- Black conte crayon on cream laid paper
- Dimensions
- 24 × 31.4 cm (9 1/2 × 12 3/8 in.)
- Type
- Drawing
- Classification
- drawings (visual works)
- Place
- France
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Credit line
- The Harry B. and Bessie K. Braude Memorial Endowment Fund
- Accession no.
- 2018.196
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