Woman Walking with a Parasol (study for La Grande Jatte)

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1884

Georges Seurat
French, 1859-1891

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Artist: Georges Seurat
Title: Woman Walking with a Parasol (study for La Grande Jatte)
Place: France (Artist's nationality:)
Date Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.: 1884
Medium: Conté crayon on cream laid paper
Dimensions: 31.7 × 24.1 cm (12 1/2 × 9 1/2 in.)
Credit Line: Bequest of Abby Aldrich Rockefeller
Reference Number: 1999.8
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Gustave Coquiot, Seurat (Paris, 1924), p. 185.
Waldemar George, Seurat et le Divisionnisme (Paris, 1928) (ill.).
Daniel Catton Rich, Seurat and the Evolution of “La Grande Jatte” (Chicago, 1935), pp. 53 and 22, pl. II.
John Rewald, George Seurat (New York, 1946), no. 67 (ill.).
Umbro Apollonio, Disegni di Seurat (Venice, 1947), pl. XI.
Joseph-Émile Muller, Seurat, Dessins (Paris, 1960), no. 16 (ill.).
César de Hauke, Seurat et son oeuvre (Paris, 1961), pp. 202-203, no. 625 (ill.).
Carol Vogel, “4 Prized Drawings, No Longer Modern, Have Left MOMA,” The New York Times (October 26, 1998), pp. A1 and A23.
Robert L. Kaiser, “A fuller view of a genius painter,” Chicago Tribune (October 27, 1998), pp. 1 and 2.
Jason Edward Kauffman, “Her will be done,” The Art Newspaper 87 (December 1998).
“Que Seurat, Seurat,” Art & Antiques (March 1999), p. 78.
Roberta Smith, “Seurat in Drawings,” The New York Times (December 07, 2007), pp front page and E34

New York, Knoedler, “Seurat: Paintings and Drawings,” April-19-May 7, 1949, cat. 51.
The Art Institute of Chicago, “Seurat: Paintings and Drawings,” January 16-March 7, 1958, pp. 29 and 64, cat. 70 (ill.); also traveled to The Museum of Modern Art, New York, March 24-May 11, 1958.
New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, “Seurat: Drawings and Oil Sketches from New York Collections,” September 29-November 27, 1977, n.p., cat. 28.
New York, The Museum of Modern Art, “A Century of Modern Drawing: 1881-1981,” 1981.
The Art Institute of Chicago, “Seurat and The Making of ‘La Grande Jatte’, June 16-September 19, 2004, p. 89, cat. 68 (ill.).
New York, Museum of Modern Art, “Georges Seurat: The Drawings,” October 28, 2007–January 7, 2008, pp. 209, and 253, cat. 116 (ill.), cat. by Jodi Hauptman, et. al.
The Art Institute of Chicago, “Impressionism, Fashion & Modernity”, June 26-September 22, 2013, hors cat.

Arthur B. Davies (1862-1928), New York [de Hauke 1961]. Abby Aldrich Rockefeller (1874-1948), New York, by 1929 [label on former backing]; bequeathed to the Art Institute, 1949 [on loan to the Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1949-1999; accessioned by the Art Institute, 1999].

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