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Georges Seurat, Dame au bouquet, de dos, Circa 1882, Crayon conté on laid paper© Kornfeld — view on Kornfeld website ↗

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Dame au bouquet, de dos

Georges Seurat (French, 1859–1891) · Circa 1882

CHF 2,300,000 hammer

≈ $2,715,150≈ £2,069,947≈ €2,450,275

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Medium
Drawing (crayon) · Works on paper all drawing results →
As published: “Crayon conté on laid paper”
Support
Paper
Category
Drawings
Dimensions
31.6 x 24.4 cm
Auction house
Kornfeld
Sale
Auction 280: Highlights from the - Eberhard W. Kornfeld Collection - Live Auction (280)
Date
September 13, 2024
Location
Bern, Switzerland
Lot
8
Estimate
CHF 2,000,000 – — (≈ $2,361,000) (≈ £1,799,954) (≈ €2,130,674)
Source
Auction house kornfeld.ch ↗
Retrieved Sep 25, 2026
Provenance (5)
  • Estate of the artist, with estate number "314" on the reverse
  • Appert family, Paris (family of the artist)
  • Paul Levasseur Collection, Paris (godson and cousin of the artist)
  • Auction Kornfeld, Bern, 13 June 1975, lot 916
  • The Eberhard W. Kornfeld Collection, Bern, with the collector's stamp on the reverse, Lugt 913b
Exhibitions (15)
  • Paris 1957, Musée Jacquemart-André, Seurat, except catalogue
  • Bielefeld 1983, Kunsthalle, Georges Seurat, Zeichnungen, cat. no. 30, ill.
  • Baden-Baden 1984, Staatliche Kunsthalle, Georges Seurat, Zeichnungen, cat. no. 30, ill.
  • Bern 1989, Kunstmuseum Bern, Von Goya bis Tinguely, Aquarelle und Zeichnungen aus einer Privatsammlung [Slg. Eberhard W. Kornfeld W. Kornfeld], cat. no. 22, ill. p. 55
  • Paris 1991, Galeries nationales du Grand Palais, Seurat, cat. no. 26, ill.
  • New York 1991/1992, The Metropolitan Museum, Seurat, cat. no. 27, ill.
  • Bern/Hamburg 1996, Kunstmuseum/Kunsthalle, "Zeichnen ist Sehen", Meisterwerke von Ingres bis Cézanne aus dem Museum der bildenden Künste Budapest und aus Schweizer Sammlungen, cat. no. 97, ill. p. 217
  • Lausanne 1998, Fondation de l'Hermitage, Pointilllisme, Sur les traces de Seurat, p. 258, without cat. no.
  • Davos 1998/1999, Kirchner Museum, Werke aus der Sammlung Eberhard W. Kornfeld, cat. no. 11, ill.
  • Madrid 2003, Fundación Juan March, Espíritu de modernidad: de Goya a Giacometti, Obra sobre papel de la colección Kornfeld, cat. no. 9, p. 130, ill. p. 31
  • Chicago 2004, The Art Institute, Seurat and the Making of La Grande Jatte, cat. no. 11, p. 272, ill. p. 34
  • New York 2007, The Museum of Modern Art, Georges Seurat: The Drawings, cat. no. 44, p. 250, ill. p. 86
  • Vienna 2008/2009, Albertina, Wege der Moderne, Aus der Sammlung Eberhard W. Kornfeld, cat. no. 15, p. 291, ill. p. 37
  • Zurich/Frankfurt am Main 2009/2010, Kunsthaus/Schirn Kunsthalle, Georges Seurat, cat. no. 26, p. 142, ill. p. 50
  • Vienna 2012, Albertina, Impressionismus : Pastelle, Aquarelle, Zeichnungen, cat. no. 148, ill. p. 251
Literature (3)
  • Catalogue raisonné: César Mange de Hauke, Seurat et son œuvre, Paris 1961, no. 496
  • Catalogue raisonné: Erich Franz/Bernd Growe, Georges Seurat, Dessins, Paris 1984, no. 30
  • Minotaure no. 11, Revue artistique et littéraire, 5th year, Paris 1938, ill. p. 6

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