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Property of an Important European Collector

Georges Seurat

Le Violiniste

Live auction begins on:

June 25, 02:00 PM GMT

Estimate

20,000 - 30,000 GBP

Bid

18,000 GBP

Lot Details

Description

Georges Seurat

1859 - 1891


Le Violiniste

crayon on paper

9.5 by 5.6 cm. 3⅝ by 2¼ in.

framed: 44 by 35 cm. 17⅜ by 13¾ in.

Executed circa 1881.

Félix Fénéon, Paris

Madame Camille Platteel, Paris

Madame Suzanne Léo Verger, Brussels

Hôtel Drouot, Paris, Suzanne Léo Verger Sale, 26 November 1956, lot 37 (consigned by the above)

Private Collection, Royaume-Uni (acquired in 1993)

Sotheby's, London, 25 June 2002, lot 103 (consigned by the above)

Galerie Jan Krugier, Geneva (acquired from the above sale)

Acquired from the above by the present owner on 25 November 2002

Paris, Galerie Bernheim-Jeune, Les Dessins de Georges Seurat, 1926, no. 29

Brussels, Palais des Beaux-Arts, De Toulouse-Lautrec à Chagall, 1956, no. 13, cat. 166, illustrated

Gustave Kahn, The Drawings of Georges Seurat, New York, 1928, pl. 20A, illustrated

César de Hauke, Seurat et son œuvre, vol. III, Paris, 1961, no. 444, p. 67, illustrated