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Title:House at Dusk (La Cité)
Artist:Georges Seurat (French, Paris 1859–1891 Paris)
Date:1881–82
Medium:Conté crayon
Dimensions:12 1/6 x 9 3/8 in. (30.6 x 23.7 cm)
Classification:Drawings
Credit Line:Purchase, Joseph Pulitzer Bequest, 1951; acquired from The Museum of Modern Art, Lillie P. Bliss Collection
Object Number:55.21.5
Maison au Crépuscule (Maison - La Cité)
Inscription: On verso, lower right hand corner, in red pencil: "222"
On verso, centre, in graphite: "de Seurat" followed by a mark or signature and several words, all indecipherable.
Marking: Watermark: E. D. et Cie [see Paris-New York 1991]
Emile Seurat (French)Paris, 1891 until his death in 1906; Mme veuve Emile Seurat (French)1906 - 1929; Georges Bernheim, Paris, 1929; Martin Birnbaum (American), New York, 1929; Lizzie Plummer Bliss (American), 1929 until her death in 1931; Museum of Modern Art, New York, Lillie P. Bliss bequest,1931 until purchase by MMA, 1951
Bernheim-Jeune et Cie, Paris. "Exposition Georges Seurat (1859-1891), 1908-09," December 14, 1908–January 9, 1909.
New York. Museum of Modern Art. "Memorial Exhibition: The Collection of the Late Miss Lillie P. Bliss," May 17, 1931–September 27, 1931.
Andover, Mass. Addison Gallery of American Art, Phillips Academy. "Memorial Exhibition: The Collection of the Late Miss Lillie P. Bliss," October 17, 1931–December 15, 1931.
Indianapolis Museum of Art. "Memorial Exhibition: The Collection of the Late Miss Lillie P. Bliss," January 1932.
Pittsburgh. Carnegie Institute. "Paintings, Drawings and Watercolors from the Lillie P. Bliss Collection," March 13, 1935–April 10, 1935.
Buchholz Gallery, New York. "Seurat : His Drawings," March 4, 1947–March 29, 1947.
Knoedler and Co. "Seurat, 1859-1891: Paintings and Drawings," April 19, 1949–May 7, 1949.
Rotterdam. Museum Boymans. "Van Clouet tot Matisse, Tentoonstelling van franse tekeningen uit amerikaanse collecties," July 31–September 28, 1958.
Paris. Musée de l'Orangerie. "De Clouet à Matisse, dessins français des collections américaines," October–November 1958.
New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "French Drawings from American Collections: Clouet to Matisse," February 3–March 15, 1959.
Paris. Cabinet des dessins, Musée du Louvre. "Dessins français du Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York de David à Picasso," October 25, 1973–January 7, 1974.
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. "Georges Seurat, 1859–1891," September 24, 1991–January 12, 1992.
New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "Drawings and Prints: Selections from the Permanent Collection," February 8–May 3, 1999.
New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "Neo-Impressionism: The Circle of Paul Signac," October 2–December 30, 2001.
Museum of Modern Art, New York. "Lillie P. Bliss and the Birth of the Modern," November 17, 2024–March 29, 2025.
de Hauke 545; Paris-New York 1991, no. 53
Fourth Loan Exhibition: The Collection of Miss Lillie P. Bliss. Addison Gallery of American Art, Phillips Academy, Andover, Mass., 1931, cat. no. 113.
Memorial Exhibition: The Collection of the Late Miss Lizzie P. Bliss. Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1931, cat. no. 139.
Alfred H. Barr Jr. Modern Masters from the Collection of Miss Lizzie P. Bliss Exh. cat., Indianapolis, John Herron Art Institute, 1-31 January 1932. John Herron Art Institute, 1932, cat. no. 108.
The Lillie P. Bliss Collection. Museum of Modern Art, New York, New York, 1934, cat. no. 60.
Watercolors and Drawings from the Lillie P. Bliss Collection. Arts Club of Chicago, Chicago, 1935, cat. no. 13.
An Exhibition of Paintings, Drawings, and Watercolors from the Lillie P. Bliss Collection. Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, 1935, cat. no. 24.
Alfred H. Barr Jr., Dorothy C. Miller, Ernestine M. Fantl, Beaumont Newhall Cubism and Abstract Art. Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1936, cat. no. 257, p. 223.
Curt Valentin Gallery Seurat: His Drawings Exh. cat., New York, Buchholz Gallery, 4-29 March 1947, coinciding with the publication of Germain Seligman, 'The Drawings of Georges Seurat'. New York, 1947, cat. no. 20.
Germain Seligman The Drawings of Georges Seurat. Curt Valentin Gallery, New York, 1947, cat. no. 39, fig. no. pl. XXVIII, pp. 23, 70, ill.
Seurat, 1859-1891 : Paintings and Drawings. Exh. cat., 19 April - 7 May. Knoedler and Co., New York, 1949, cat. no. 30.
Robert L. Herbert Seurat: Paintings and Drawings Exh. cat., Art Institute of Chicago, 16 January - 7 March 1958, and New York, The Museum of Modern Art, 24 March - 11 May 1958. Edited by Daniel Catton Rich, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, 1958, cat. no. 67, p. 29.
French Drawings from American Collections: Clouet to Matisse A Special Loan Exhibition, February 3–March 15, 1959. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1959, cat. no. 187, p. 122.
César de Hauke Seurat et son oeuvre. vol. 2, Paris, 1961, cat. no. 545, pp. 132-133,280,, ill.
Pierre Courthion, Norbert Guterman Georges Seurat. Harry N. Abrams, Inc., The Library of Great Painters, New York, 1968, p. 53, ill.
Fiorella Minervino, André Chastel L'opera completa di Seurat. Rizzoli, See also French edition, 'Tout l'oeuvre peint de Seurat', Italian. Milan, 1972, cat. no. D140, pp. 114, 115, ill.
Fiorella Minervino, André Chastel Tout l'oeuvre peint de Seurat. Ernest Flammarion, See also Italian edition, 'L'opera complete di Seurat', French. Paris, 1972, cat. no. D140, pp. 114, 115, ill.
Jacob Bean, Linda Boyer Gillies, Cynthia Lambros, Roseline Bacou, Réunion des Musées Nationaux Dessins français du Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York: de David à Picasso 54th Exposition de Cabinet des Dessins Musée du Louvre, 25 octobre 1973–7 janvier 1974. Paris, 1973, cat. no. 88, fig. no. 77, pp. 65, 147.
Antoine Terrasse l'Univers de Seurat. Henri Scrépel, Paris, 1976, p. 36, ill.
Hilton Kramer "Seurat, A Master of Elusive Perceptions" New York Times. 30 September,. New York, 1977, p. 62.
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, cat. no. 16.
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, cat. no. 53, p. 77, ill.
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