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Title:Still Life with Hat, Parasol, and Clothes on a Chair
Artist:Georges Seurat (French, Paris 1859–1891 Paris)
Date:1887
Medium:Conté crayon and white gouache
Dimensions:12 3/16 x 9 3/8 in. (31 x 23.8 cm)
Classification:Drawings
Credit Line:Bequest of Walter C. Baker, 1971
Object Number:1972.118.235
Nature Morte (Chapeau et parapluie)
Chapeau et Ombrelle
Marking: Faint diagonal incision lines on verso.
Félix Fénéon (French); Pierre Bonnard (French), by 1926 until his death in 1947and subsequently owned by his estate, 1947-1954 (Bonnard Sale, Galerie Charpentier, 23 February 1954, no. 9); César de Hauke; Walter C. Baker (American), by 1958, until 1971
New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "The Walter C. Baker Collection of Drawings," June 2–September 4, 1960.
New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "Seurat: Drawings and Oil Sketches from New York Collections," September 29–November 27, 1977.
New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "Nineteenth Century French Drawings and Prints," June 23–August 23, 1981.
New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "French Drawings Recently Acquired, 1975-1984," November 27, 1984–February 10, 1985.
New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "Georges Seurat, 1859–1891," September 24, 1991–January 12, 1992.
New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "Neo-Impressionism: The Circle of Paul Signac," October 2–December 30, 2001.
Kunsthaus Zürich. "Georges Seurat: Figure in Space," October 2, 2009–January 17, 2010.
New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "Impressionism, Fashion, and Modernity," February 26–May 7, 2013.
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John Rewald Georges Seurat. Albin Michel, 1st French edition; English editions published 1943 & 1946. 1948.
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Claus Virch Master Drawings in the Collection of Walter C. Baker. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1962.
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Pierre Courthion, Norbert Guterman Georges Seurat. Harry N. Abrams, Inc., The Library of Great Painters, New York, 1968.
Gustave Kahn, Stanley Appelbaum The Drawings of Georges Seurat [Translation and reprint of 'Les Dessins de Georges Seurat', Paris, 1928]. Dover Books, New York, 1971.
Roy McMullen "Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte." Horizon. Summer,. 1971.
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Jacob Bean Seurat, Drawings and Oil Sketches from New York Collections. Exh. cat.: September 29 - November 27, 1977. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1977.
Alain Madeleine-Perdrillat, Jean-Marie Clarke Seurat. Editions Albert Skira (Geneva), Rizzoli (New York), French & English eds. published simultaneously by Skira &Rizzoli. Geneva and New York, 1990.
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Françoise Cachin Seurat et le rêve de l'art-science. Librairie Gallimard, Réunion des Musées Nationaux , Peinture, Paris, 1991, p. 141 (table of illustrations).
Anne Distel Seurat. Chêne, Switzerland?, 1991.
Robert L. Herbert, Françoise Cachin, Anne Distel, Susan Alyson Stein, Gary Tinterow Georges Seurat, 1859-1891. Exh. cat., Paris, Grand Palais, 9 April 1991 - 12 August 1991, and MMA, 24 September 1991 - 12 January 1992. Harry N. Abrams, Inc., The Metropolitan Museum of Art, English version; French version also published. New York, 1991-1992.
Michael F. Zimmermann, Jérôme Ferry, Solange Schnall, Karin Fanny Williams Les Mondes de Seurat, son oeuvre et le débat artistique de son temps. Fonds Mercator (Anvers), Albin Michel (Paris), French edition (also see German ed.). Antwerp and Paris, 1991.
Linda Nochlin "Body Politics : Seurat's Poseuses." Art in America. Reprinted in Linda Nochlin - 'Representing Women', Thames and Hudson, 1999., vol. 82, no. 3, New York, March 1994.
Linda Nochlin Representing Women. Thames and Hudson, Text is the same as Nochlin - "Body Politics: Seurat's Poseuses", in 'Art in America', vol. 82, no. 3, March 1994., 1999.
Robert L. Herbert Seurat : Drawings and Paintings. Yale University Press, New Haven and London, 2001.
Christoph Becker, Julia Burckhardt Bild Georges Seurat: Figure in Space. Exh. cat., Kunsthaus Zürich, October 2, 2009-January 17, 2010, Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt, January 4-May 9, 2010. Ostfildern, 2009, ill. p. 125.
Impressionism, Fashion, and Modernity. Exh. cat., Musée d'Orsay, Paris, September 25, 2012-January 20, 2013, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, February 26-May 27, 2013, Art Institute of Chicago, June 26-September 22, 2013. Gloria Groom, New Haven, CT, 2012, p. 298, ill. (New York only).
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