The Provenance Research Project

Estate of the artist (Madeleine Knobloch), Paris, 1881 [1]; sold to Veuve (Sylvie) Monnom (1836-1921), Brussels, 1892 [2]; to Marie (née Monnom) (1866-1959) and Théo (1862-1926) van Rijsselberghe, Brussels, by 1904 until at least 1909 [3]. [Galerie Druet, Paris, 1913] [4]; Félix Fénéon, Paris [5]; Galerie Alfred Flechtheim, Düsseldorf [6]]. Sold through Gösta A. Olson, Stockholm to Rolf de Maré, Stockholm/Paris, 1918 [7]; sold to Paul Rosenberg & Co., New York, 1942 [8]; sold to William A. M. Burden, New York, October 1948 [9]; acquired by The Museum of Modern Art, New York (Gift of Mr. and Mrs. William A. M. Burden), 1963.
[1] Included in the 7th Salon des Artistes Indépendants, Pavillon de la Ville de Paris, March 20-April 27, 1891 no. 1106 (see de Hauke 1961, Seurat et son oeuvre, Paris: Gründ, 1961, p. 227).
[2] Henri Dorra and John Rewald, eds., Seurat: L'Oeuvre peint, biographie et catalogue critique, Paris: Les Beaux-Arts, 1959, no. 203: "Monnom, Bruxelles (acquis pour 400 francs en 1892)." Included in the 8th Salon des Artistes Indépendants, Pavillon de la Ville de Paris, March 19-April 27, 1892, no. 1107: "Prêté par M. Monnom." (see de Hauke 1961, p. 228).
[3] See Exposition des peintres Impressionnistes, La Libre Esthétique, Brussels, February 25 - March 29, 1904, no. 150: "appartient à M. Théo van Rysselberghe" (see de Hauke 1961, p. 233); and Georges Seurat, Galerie Bernheim-Jeune, Paris, December 14, 1908 -January 9, 1909, no. 81: "Le chenal de Gravelines: un soir; à M. T.v.R. (see de Hauke 1961, p. 239).
[4] Per Ellen Wardwell Lee, Seurat at Gravelines: The Last Landscapes, exh. cat. Indianapolis: Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indiana University Press, 1990, no. 4: "Galerie Druet, Paris (1913)." Not in Dorra and Rewald 1959. Not in de Hauke 1961.
[5] See Exhibition of Masters of French 19th Century Painting (lender: Rolf de Maré), New Burlington Galleries, London, October 1-31, 1936, no. 123: "Collections: Félix Fénéon; Flechtheim." James Laver, French Painting and the Nineteenth Century, New York: Charles Scribner's Sons/London: B.T. Batsford, Ltd., 1937, no. 137 (repr.): "Former collections: Félix Fénéon, Paris; Alfred Flechtheim, Berlin." Not in Dorra and Rewald 1959. Not in de Hauke 1961.
[6] Ibid. Galerie Alfred Flechtheim is listed as the subsequent owner after Théo van Rijsselberghe and previous owner before Rolf de Maré in Dorra and Rewald 1959 and de Hauke 1961.
[7] Included in the exhibition Fransk Konst organized by Gösta A. Olson, Stockholm, April-May 1918, no. 99: "Aftonstämning, Gravelines (1890)." Reproduced in Karl Asplund, Rolf de Marés Tavelsamling, Stockholm: Gunnar Tisells Tekniska Förlag, 1923, pl. XIX: "Georges Seurat, Aftonstämning, Gravelines, oljemalning, 64 x 80 cm."
[8] See Rosamond Frost, Contemporary Art: The March of Art from Cézanne until now, New York: Crown Publishers, 1942, p. 34: "Courtesy of Paul Rosenberg & Co., New York."
Previously on loan from de Maré to the following exhibitions at Paul Rosenberg Galleries: Oeuvres importantes de Grands Maîtres du Dix-Neuvième Siècle, Paul Rosenberg, Paris, May 18-June 27, 1931 (no. 75: Le Port de Gravelines); Exposition Seurat (1859-1891), Paul Rosenberg, Paris, February 3 to 29, 1936 (no. 51).
[9] Seurat. Paintings and Drawings, Knoedler Galleries, New York, April 19-May 7, 1949, no. 20 ("Lent by William A. M. Burden, Esq.").