About This Artwork
Georges Seurat
French, 1859-1891
Tree Trunks (study for La Grande Jatte), 1884
Black Conté crayon on ivory laid paper
474 x 615 mm
Helen Regenstein Collection, 1987.184
Prints and Drawings
Not on Display
Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories
Exhibition History
New York, The Frick Collection, "From Pontormo to Seurat: Drawings Recently Acquired by The Art Institute of Chicago," April 23-July 7, 1991, n.p., cat. 53; traveled to The Art Institute of Chicago, September 10, 1991-January 5, 1992.
New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, "Georges Seurat," September 9, 1991-January 12, 1992, cat. 124, cat. by Robert L. Herbert.
The Art Institute of Chicago, "Seurat and the Making of 'La Grande Jatte', June 16-September 19, 2004, cat. 46, p. 72 (ill.); also traveled to The Art Institute of Chicago, September 10, 1991-January 5, 1992.
New York, Museum of Modern Art, “Georges Seurat: The Drawings,” October 28, 2007–January 7, 2008, pp. 208, and 253, cat. 116 (ill.), cat. by Jodi Hauptman, et. al.
Publication History
Henri Dorra and John Rewald, Seurat (Paris, 1959), p. 123, no. 116a (ill.).
Cesár de Hauke, Seurat et son oeuvre (Paris 1961), p. 200, no. 620 (ill.).
Robert L. Herbert, Seurat’s Drawings (New York, 1962), pp. 110, 182, no. 97 (ill.).
John Russell, Seurat (New York, 1965), pp. 139, 279, no. 129.
André Chastel and Fiorella Minervino, L’Opera completa di Seurat (Milan, 1972), no. D. 17 (ill.).
Jean Leymarie, Monnier, and Rose, Drawing (New York, 1979), p. 197 (ill.).
"From Maineri to Miró: The Regenstein Collection Since 1975," The Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies 26:1 (2000), p. 82-83, no. 36 (ill.)
Suzanne Folds McCullagh, “‘A Lasting Monument’: The Regenstein Collection at the Art Institute of Chicago,” The Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies 26, 1 (2000), p. 13.
Ownership History
Estate of the artist, Paris [Posthumous inventory, drawing no. 358; New York, 1992]; by descent to Mme. Léopold Appert, Paris [New York 1991]; private collection, Paris, by 1961 [de Hauke 1961]. Sold by Phillipe Brame, Paris, to the Art Institute, 1987.