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Study for "Bathers at Asnières"
The Cleveland Museum of Art · Bequest of Leonard C. Hanna Jr.
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Study for "Bathers at Asnières"

c. 1883–84
Georges Seurat (French, 1859–1891) visual detail
ArtistGeorges Seurat (French, 1859–1891)
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Provenance

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c. 1883/1884-1891

Estate of the artist, distributed to Théo van Rysselberghe1

1891-?

Théo van Rysselberghe [1862-1926], Saint-Clair, Var, France

Until 1929

Felix Fénéon [1861-1944], Paris, sold to Anson Conger Goodyear through de Hauke & Co

1929-

Anson Conger Goodyear [1877-1964], Old Westbury, NY

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(Paul Rosenberg & Co., New York)

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Walter Bareiss [1919-2007], Greenwich, CT

Provenance event

(Paul Rosenberg & Co., New York, sold to Leonard C. Hanna, Jr.)

Source provenance text

Estate of the artist, distributed to Théo van Rysselberghe1 Théo van Rysselberghe [1862-1926], Saint-Clair, Var, France Felix Fénéon [1861-1944], Paris, sold to Anson Conger Goodyear through de Hauke & Co Anson Conger Goodyear [1877-1964], Old Westbury, NY (Paul Rosenberg & Co., New York) Walter Bareiss [1919-2007], Greenwich, CT (Paul Rosenberg & Co., New York, sold to Leonard C. Hanna, Jr.) (Leonard C. Hanna, Jr. [1889-1957], Cleveland, OH, bequeathed to the Cleveland Museum of Art) The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH

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Exhibitions

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Seurat and "The Bathers". National Gallery, London (organizer) (July 2-September 28, 1997). Seurat and the Making of "La Grande Jatte". The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL (organizer) (June 16-September 19, 2004). Monet to Dalí: Modern Masters from the Cleveland Museum of Art. Seoul Art Center, South Korea (December 22, 2006-March 28, 2007); Seoul Olympic Museum of Art, South Korea (April 7-May 20, 2007); Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, Canada (June 9-September 16, 2007); The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (October 21, 2007-January 13, 2008); Frist Art Museum, Nashville, TN (February 15-June 1, 2008); Utah Museum of Fine Arts, Salt Lake City, UT (June 22-September 21, 2008); The Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, MI (October 12, 2008-January 18, 2009). This cannot be confirmed by the museum but it is very possible, as Leonard C. Hanna Jr. lent his paintings regularly to this institution, his alma mater).Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT (May 1955).

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Sourced Overview Evidence

This oil sketch is one of many preparatory studies Seurat made for his monumental painting Bathers at Asnières (1883-84), depicting men leisurely bathing in the Seine near an industrial suburb of Paris. Seurat borrowed the brilliant colors of Impressionism to suggest outdoor light, but added structure by emphasizing basic geometric shapes and firm outlines. As a leader of the movement to reform Impressionism, his style became known as Neo-Impressionism.

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