Georges Seurat

Georges Seurat
A l'ombre et au soleil, 1884/85
Study for La Grande-Jatte,
Oil on panel, 15.6 x 25.2 cm
Dorra/Rewald no. 117, Hauke no. 127.
Provenance
The estate of the artist (1) ▪ Edmond Cousturier, Paris (by 1905) (2) ▪ François Cousturier, Paris (3) ▪
Rosenberg, London (until 1951) (4) ▪ Dr. Arthur Kauffmann, London (5) ▪ Emil Bührle, Zurich (28
December 1951 until [d.] 28 November 1956) (6) ▪ Given by the heirs of Emil Bührle to the
Foundation E.G. Bührle Collection, Zurich, no. 94 (1960).
(1) Inv. no. 109, Hauke no. 127.
(2) Exposition rétrospective Georges Seurat (1859–1891), Société des Artistes Indépendants (Grandes Serres de
l'Alma), Paris 1905, no. 19.
(3) Dorra/Rewald no. 117; Hauke no. 127.
(4) Dorra/Rewald no. 117.
(5) AStEGB, Entry Book I, 28 December 1951.
(6) Acquired from the above for CHF 37.000, Entry Book as above, n. (5), with mention "gekauft am 28. 12. 51",
and indication of price.
Exhibitions
Seurat, La Revue Blanche, Paris 1900, no. 13. ▪ Exposition rétrospective Georges Seurat (1859–
1891), Société des Artistes Indépendants (Grandes Serres de l'Alma), Paris 1905, no. 19. ▪ Georges
Seurat 1859–1891, Galerie Bernheim-Jeune, Paris 1908–09, no. 44. ▪ Seurat et ses amis, La suite de
l'impressionnisme, Galerie de la Gazette des Beaux-Arts [Wildenstein], Paris 1933–34, no. 76. ▪
Exposition Seurat (1859–1891), Galerie Paul Rosenberg, Paris 1936, no. 27. ▪ Seurat and His
Contemporaries, Wildenstein & Co., London 1937, no. 47. ▪ Seurat, Paintings & Drawings, Art
Institute, Chicago; Museum of Modern Art, New York 1958, no. 95. ▪ Chefs-d'œuvre des collections
suisses de Manet à Picasso, Exposition nationale suisse (Palais de Beaulieu), Lausanne 1964, no.
139. ▪ Pointillismus, Auf den Spuren von Georges Seurat, Wallraf-Richartz-Museum, Cologne,
Fondation de l'Hermitage, Lausanne 1997–98, no. 137 (exhibited in Cologne only). ▪
L'impressionismo e l'età di van Gogh, Casa dei Carraresi, Treviso 2002–03, no. 88. ▪ Georges Seurat,
Figur im Raum, Kunsthaus Zurich; Städel, Frankfurt/Main 2009–10, no. 46 (exhibited in Zurich only).
▪ Divisionnisme, Couleur maitrisée? Couleur éclatée! (Divisonismus, Beherrschte Farbe?
Ungebändigte Farbe!), Fondation Pierre Arnaud, Lens/Crans-Montana 2013–14, p. 258 (ill. bottom).
References
Francisek Biedart, "Seurat", in La Revue Glos Plastykow, Cracow (March) 1934, fig. 85. ▪ Henri Dorra,
John Rewald, Seurat, L'œuvre peint, Biographie et catalogue critique, Paris 1959, no. 117 (ill.). ▪
César M. de Hauke, Seurat et son œuvre, vol. 1, Paris 1961, no. 127 (ill.). ▪ André Chastel, Fiorella
Minervino, L'opera completa di Seurat, Milan 1972, no. 129 (ill.; German edition: Das Gesamtwerk
von Seurat, Lucerne; French edition: Tout l'œuvre peint de Seurat, Paris 1973). ▪ Masakata Ogawa,
Takeshi Kashiwa, Seurat, Tokyo 1978, no. 9 (ill.). ▪ Richard Thomson, Seurat, Oxford 1985, p. 99. ▪
Alain Madeleine-Perdrillat, Seurat, Geneva 1990, pp. 60 (ill. bottom), 212 (English edition: New York
1990). ▪ John Rewald, Seurat, A Biography, New York 1990, p. 83 (ill. bottom). ▪ Robert L. Herbert,
Seurat and the Making of La Grande Jatte, (exh. cat.) Art Institute, Chicago 2004, pp. 265, 267 (ill.).
Catalogues of the Bührle Collection: 1966 & 1971, no. 94; 1973/86, no. 90; 1994/95, p. 30;
2004/05: no. 146. ▪ Exhibitions of the Bührle Collection: Zurich 1958, no. 210; Berlin 1958, no. 34;
Munich 1958–59, no. 146; Washington D.C. etc. 1990–91, no. 64; Zurich 2010, no. 94. ▪ Articles on
the Bührle Collection: Huggler 1958, p. 370 (ill.).
Catalogues, exhibitions and articles cited in full see http://www.buehrle.ch/pdf/egbcat.pdf.
Status as per January 2017
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AStEGB = Archive of the Foundation E.G. Bührle Collection, Zurich
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