Lot 108
  • 108

Georges Seurat

Estimate
35,000 - 45,000 GBP
bidding is closed

Description

  • Georges Seurat
  • LE VIOLONISTE
  • crayon conté noir sur papier

  • 9,4 x 5,6 cm; 3 5/8 x 2 1/4 in.

Provenance

Félix Fénéon, Paris
Mme Camille Platteel, Paris
Mme Suzanne Léo Verger, Bruxelles (vente : Hôtel Drouot, Paris, Suzanne Léo Verger Sale, 26 novembre 1956, lot 37)
Collection particulière, Royaume-Uni (acquis à Londres en1993; vente : Sotheby's, Londres, 25 juin 2002, lot 103)
Galerie Jan Krugier, Ditesheim & Cie., Genève (acquis lors de la vente mentionnée ci-dessus )
Acquis auprès de celui-ci par le propriétaire actuel

Exhibited

Paris, Galerie Bernheim-Jeune, Les Dessins de Seurat, 1926, no. 29
Bruxelles, Palais des Beaux-Arts, De Toulouse-Lautrec à Chagall, 1956, no. 166, illustré au sein du catalogue

Literature

César de Hauke, Seurat et son œuvre, Paris, 1961, vol. II, no. 444, illustré p. 67 
Gustave Kahn, The Drawings of Georges Seurat, New York, 1971, illustré pl. 36

Condition

Executed on cream wove paper, not laid down, attached to the mount in all four corners. There are artist's pinholes to the centre of the top and bottom edges. Apart from a tiny nick to the centre of bottom edge, this work is in good condition.
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Catalogue Note

black conté crayon on paper. Executed circa 1881.