Georges Seurat
Study for "La Parade"
1887
Étude pour "La Parade"
Oil on wood
16.5 x 26 cm
Studio stamp lower right
Dorra/Rewald 180; Hauke 186
Henri Dorra, John Rewald, Seurat, L’œuvre peint, biographie et catalogue critique, Paris, 1959.
César M. de Hauke, Seurat et son œuvre, 2 vol., Paris, 1961.
1Ambroise Vollard Paris Hauke no. 186.
2Charpentier Paris Hauke no. 186.
3Adolphe Basler Paris Hauke no. 186.
4Rose Vildrac Paris Dorra/Rewald no. 180; Hauke no. 186.
5Pierre Loeb Paris Dorra/Rewald no. 180; Hauke no. 186.
6Joseph Hessel Paris Dorra/Rewald no. 180; Hauke no. 186.
7De Hauke & Co., Inc. New York • 1931–1934 Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington D.C., Jacques Seligmann & Co. records, Box 417, Folder 4, Inventory dated 27 September 1934 of artworks owned by Modern Paintings, Inc., the company established by Germain Seligman to incorporate most of the inventory of de Hauke & Co., Inc., liquidated between 1931 and 1934. The painting by Seurat, "Etude pour la Parade" is listed on p. 5.
8Germain Seligman New York • 1934–1951 Inventory as above, n. (7), listing a purchase of the painting from the de Hauke & Co. inventory by Seligman, without giving a date; Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington D.C., Jacques Seligmann & Co. records, Box 281, Folder 12, Stock Book 1935/36 lists the painting with the inv. no. 3457.
9Emil Bührle Zurich • 5 July 1951 until [d.] 28 November 1956 Acquired from the above for $ 10.500, as one of a group of six paintings, invoiced for $100.000 altogether, AStEGB, Invoice made from Jacques Seligmann & Co., Inc., New York, made out to Emil Bührle, 22 June 1951; Letter from O. A. Liechti, Jacques Seligmann & Co., Inc., New York, 5 July 1951, confirming receipt of the full amount for the 6 paintings, invoiced 22 June 1951.
10Given by the heirs of Emil Bührle to the Foundation E.G. Bührle Collection Zurich • 1960 Inv. 95.
AStEGB = Archive of the Foundation E.G. Bührle Collection, Zurich
Henri Dorra, John Rewald, Seurat, L’œuvre peint, biographie et catalogue critique, Paris, 1959.
César M. de Hauke, Seurat et son œuvre, 2 vol., Paris, 1961.
1935Twenty-four Paintings and Drawings by Georges-Pierre Seurat Renaissance Society • University of Chicago • Chicago • 1935 no. 24.
1936Style and Technique Fogg Art Museum • Harvard (Massachusetts) • 1936 no. 31.
1936Cubism and Abstract Art Museum of Modern Art • New York • 1936 no. 260.
1939The Stage Jacques Seligmann Galleries • New York • 1939 no. 25.
1945The Little Show Dayton Art Institute • Dayton (Ohio) • 1945 no. 10.
1945Camille Pissarro Wildenstein Galleries • New York • 1945 no. 67.
1949Post-Impressionists and Their Followers Palm Beach • Florida • 1949 no. 18.
1949Seurat 1859–1891, Paintings and Drawings Knoedler Galleries • New York • 1949 no. 21.
1949Fifteen Impressionists Wildenstein Galleries • New York • 1949 no. 26.
1949Fifteen Impressionists New York State University • College of Fine Arts • Syracuse (New York) • 1949 no. 27.
1952Il Divisionismo in Francia XXVI Biennale di Venezia • Venice • 1952 p. 389 (no. 16).
1958Sammlung Emil G. Bührle, Festschrift zu Ehren von Emil G. Bührle zur Eröffnung des Kunsthaus-Neubaus und Katalog der Sammlung Emil G. Bührle Kunsthaus Zurich • 1958 no. 212.
1958Französische Malerei von Manet bis Matisse aus der Sammlung Emil G. Bührle/Zürich Nationalgalerie der ehemals Staatlichen Museen, Schloss Charlottenburg • Berlin • 1958 no. 36.
1958Hauptwerke der Sammlung Emil Georg Bührle–Zürich Haus der Kunst • Munich • 1958–59 no. 147.
1963Sammlung Emil G. Bührle, Französische Meister von Delacroix bis Matisse Kunstmuseum Lucerne • 1963 no. 46.
1990The Passionate Eye, Impressionist and Other Master Paintings from the Collection of Emil G. Bührle, Zurich, Catalogue of the Exhibition in Commemoration of the 100th Birthday of the Collector Emil G. Bührle National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. • Musée des beaux-arts de Montréal • Yokohama Museum of Art • Royal Academy of Arts, London • 1990–91 no. 65.
1997Pointillismus, Auf den Spuren von Georges Seurat Wallraf-Richartz-Museum, Cologne • Fondation de l'Hermitage, Lausanne • 1997–98 no. 140 (exhibited in Cologne only).
2002L'impressionismo e l'età di van Gogh Casa dei Carraresi • Treviso • 2002–03 no. 87.
2009Georges Seurat, Figur im Raum Kunsthaus Zurich • Städel, Frankfurt/Main • 2009–10 no. 73.
2014Seurat Kröller-Müller Museum • Otterlo • 2014 p. 88 (ill.).
1941Robert J. Goldwater «Some Aspects of the Development of Seurat's Style» in Art Bulletin(23) • 1941 • p. 122, fig. 15.
1943John Rewald Georges SeuratNew York • 1943 • fig. 76 (21946; French edition: Paris 1948, fig. 81).
1947Germain Seligman The Drawings of Georges Seurat New York • 1947 • pp. 17, 19–20, 23–24.
1951Jacques de Laprade Seurat Paris • 1951 • p. 62 (ill.).
1952Michelangelo Muraro «Divisionismo» in Emporium(July) • 1952 • p. 25. (ill.).
1953Raymond Cogniat Seurat Paris • 1953 • p. 30 (ill.; English edition).
1959Henri Dorra • John Rewald Seurat, L'œuvre peint, Biographie et catalogue critique Paris • 1959 • no. 180 (ill.).
1960Germain Seligman Merchants of Art 1880–1960, Eighty Years of Professional Collecting New York • 1960 • fig. 64a.
1961César M. de Hauke Seurat et son œuvre vol. 1 • Paris • 1961 • no. 186 (ill.).
1969Pierre Courthion Seurat London • 1969 • p. 138, no. 186 (ill.).
1970Mark Roskill Van Gogh, Gauguin, and the Impressionist Circle London • 1970 • fig. 74.
1972André Chastel • Fiorella Minervino L'opera completa di Seurat Milan • 1972 • fig. 51, no. 187 (ill.; German edition: Das Gesamtwerk von Seurat, Lucerne • French edition: Tout l'œuvre peint de Seurat, Paris 1973).
1972Louis Hautecœur Georges Seurat Milan • 1972 • p. 53 (ill.; French edition: Paris etc. 1974 • German edition: Munich 1974).
1973Leopold Reidemeister etc. Stiftung Sammlung Emil G. Bührle • Fondation Collection Emil G. Bührle • Foundation Emil G. Bührle Collection Zurich & Munich • 1973 • no. 91 (ill.; 21986).
1978Masakata Ogawa • Takeshi Kashiwa Seurat Tokyo • 1978 • no. 26 (ill.).
1985Richard Thomson Seurat Oxford • 1985 • p. 148, fig. 153.
1988Herbert Wotte Georges Seurat, Wesen, Werk, Wirkung Dresden • 1988 • fig. 72.
1990Alain Madeleine-Perdrillat Seurat Geneva • 1990 • pp. 114 (ill.), 213 (English edition: New York 1990).
1990John Rewald Seurat, A Biography New York • 1990 • p. 180 (ill.).
1991Seurat (exh. cat.) • Grand Palais, Paris • Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York • 1991–92 • pp. 359–360, fig. 77 (English edition: Georges Seurat 1859–1891, p. 317 [ill.]).
1993Martha Kapos (ed.)The Post-Impressionists, A Retrospective London & New York • 1993 • fig. 25.
1994Emil Maurer Stiftung Sammlung E.G. Bührle, Zürich Bern • 1994 • p. 30 (English edition: Foundation E.G. Bührle Collection, Zurich, Bern 1995).
1999Hajo Düchting Georges Seurat 1859–1891, Malerei auf den Punkt gebracht Cologne etc. • 1999 • pp. 58 (ill.)–59 (English, French and Italian editions).
1998Eberhard Roters Malerei des 19. Jahrhunderts, Themen und Motive Cologne • 1998 • vol. 1 • p. 383 (ill.).
2001Robert L. Herbert Seurat, Drawings and Paintings New Haven & London • 2001 • p. 144.
2004Lukas Gloor, Marco Goldin (ed.)Foundation E.G. Bührle Collection, Zurich, Catalogue vol. 3 • Conegliano & Zurich • 2004 • no. 147 (ill.; German edition: Stiftung Sammlung E.G. Bührle, Katalog • Italian edition: Fondazione Collezione E.G. Bührle, Catalogo).
2021Lukas Gloor «The Holdings of the Emil Bührle Collection: Illustrated List of All 633 Purchases» in The Emil Bührle Collection: History, Full Catalogue and 70 Masterpieces Swiss Institute for Art Research, Zurich (ed.), Munich 2021, no. 200 (ill.).