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Property from an Important Private Collection

Georges Seurat

Blé et arbres (Le Champ de blé) (recto); Portrait de Félix Fénéon (verso)

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May 13, 11:00 PM GMT

Estimate

500,000 - 700,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Property from an Important Private Collection

Georges Seurat

(1859 - 1891)


Blé et arbres (Le Champ de blé) (recto); Portrait de Félix Fénéon (verso)

inscribed by another hand de Seurat (on the verso)

conté crayon on paper

9 ½ by 12 ½ in.   24.2 by 31.8 cm.

Executed circa 1883.

Émile Seurat, Paris (acquired by descent from the artist)

Jos Hessel, Paris (acquired by 1926)

Mme Lucien Milinaire, France

Jean Schmit, Paris

Félix Fénéon, Châtenay-Malabry

Pierre Brunoy, France

Bignou Gallery, New York (acquired by 1940) 

Richard H. Zinser, New York (acquired by 1947)

Private Collection, New York

Parke-Bernet Galleries, New York, 13 May 1953, lot 20 (consigned by the above)

Private Collection, New York (acquired at the above sale)

Dr. Fritz Nathan and Dr. Peter Nathan, Zurich

Norton Simon, Pasadena

Parke-Bernet Galleries, New York, 5 May 1971, lot 47 (consigned by the above)

Jan Krugier and Marie-Anne Krugier-Poniatowski, Geneva (acquired at the above sale)

Sotheby’s, London, 5 February 2014, lot 31 (consigned by the estate of the above)

Acquired at the above sale by the present owner

Gustave Coquiot, Seurat, Paris, 1924, p. 185, illustrated (titled Le Champ de blé

Gustave Kahn, Les Dessins de Georges Seurat, Paris, 1928, pl. 109, illustrated

Jacques de Laprade, Georges Seurat, Monaco, 1945, pl. 74, illustrated; p. 96 (dated circa 1882)

Germain Seligman, The Drawings of Georges Seurat, New York, 1947, no. 31, p. 23; p. 66 (titled Le Champ de blé and dated circa 1880)

César M. de Hauke, Seurat et son œuvre, vol. II, Paris, 1961, no. 551, p. 136; p. 137, illustrated

Gustave Kahn, The Drawings of Georges Seurat, New York, 1971, p. xviii; pl. 129, illustrated

Joan Ungersma Halperin, “Scientific Criticism and le beau moderne of the Age of Science,” Art Criticism, vol. I, no. 1, Spring 1979, p. 62; p. 70, note 19

Alain Madeleine-Perdrillat, Seurat, Geneva, 1990, p. 92, recto illustrated (titled Field of Wheat); p. 172, verso illustrated

Michael F. Zimmermann, Seurat and the Art Theory of his Time, Antwerp, 1991, no. 167, p. 103, illustrated (titled Cornfield and Trees)

Exh. Cat., New York, The Museum of Modern Art, Georges Seurat: The Drawings, 2007-08, fig. 3, p. 22, illustrated

Paris, La Revue Blanche, Seurat, 1900

Paris, Galerie Bernheim-Jeune, Exposition Georges Seurat, 1908-09, no. 101, p. 18

Paris, Galerie Bernheim-Jeune, Georges Seurat, 1920, no. 53 (titled Blé et arbres)

Paris, Galeries nationales du Grand Palais, Trente ans d'Art Indépendant 1884-1914, Exposition Rétrospective, 1926, no. 3224, p. 203 (titled Dessin)

Paris, Galerie Bernheim-Jeune, Les Dessins de Seurat, 1926, no. 126

New York, Gallery Bignou, Post-Impressionism, 1940, no. 18

New York, Buchholz Gallery, Seurat: His Drawings, 1947, no. 15 (titled Wheatfield and dated circa 1880)

Kassel, Alte Galerie, Documenta III, 1964, no. 3, p. 208; p. 210, illustrated (titled Le Champ de blé)

Geneva, Galerie Jan Krugier, Le Silence des Autres, 1972, no. 4, illustrated

Paris, Grand Palais, Jean Paulhan à travers ses peintres, 1974, no. 685, no. 228 (titled Blés et arbres)

Baden-Baden, Staatliche Kunsthalle and Kunsthalle Bielefeld, Georges Seurat—Zeichnungen, 1983-84, illustrated

Berlin, Kupferstichkabinett, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin—Preussischer Kulturbesitz, Linie, Licht und Schatten. Meisterzeichnungen und Skulpturen der Sammlung Jan und Marie-Anne Krugier-Poniatowski, 1999, no. 114, recto and verso illustrated

Venice, Peggy Guggenheim Collection, The Timeless Eye. Master Drawings from the Jan and Marie-Anne Krugier-Poniatowski Collection, 1999, no. 125, p. 264, illustrated (verso); p. 265, illustrated in color (recto) (titled Cornfield)

Madrid, Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Miradas sin Tiempo. Dibujos, Pinturas y Esculturas de la Coleccion Jan y Marie-Anne Krugier-Poniatowski, 2000, no. 150, recto and verso illustrated

Paris, Musée Jacquemart-André, La passion du dessin. Collection Jan et Marie-Anne Krugier-Poniatowski, 2002, no. 139, p. 302, verso illustrated; p. 303, recto illustrated in color

Vienna, Albertina, Goya bis Picasso. Meisterwerke der Sammlung Jan Krugier und Marie-Anne Krugier-Poniatowski, 2005, no. 87, pp. 210-11, recto and verso illustrated in color (titled Das Getreidefeld)

Munich, Hypo-Kulturstiftung, Das Ewige Auge—Von Rembrandt bis Picasso. Meisterwerke aus der Sammlung Jan Krugier und Marie-Anne Krugier-Poniatowski, 2007, no. 138, illustrated in color

Kunsthaus Zurich and Frankfurt, Schirn Kunsthalle, Georges Seurat. Figure in Space, 2009-10, no. 10, recto and verso illustrated