Georges-Pierre Seurat Evening, Honfleur 1886
- MoMA, Floor 5, 501 The Alfred H. Barr, Jr. Galleries
- Medium
- Oil on canvas, with painted wood frame
- Dimensions
- 30 3/4 x 37" (78.3 x 94 cm) including frame
- Credit
- Gift of Mrs. David M. Levy
- Object number
- 266.1957
- Department
- Painting and Sculpture
- Georges-Pierre Seurat has 9 works online.
- There are 2,462 paintings online.
Installation views
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Art in a Changing World: 1884–1964: Painting and Sculpture from the Museum Collection
May 27, 1964
2 other works identified
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Selections from the Permanent Collection: Painting and Sculpture
May 17, 1984–Aug 4, 1992
1 other work identified
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Selections from the Permanent Collection of Painting and Sculpture
Jul 1, 1993
2 other works identified
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Collection Highlights (2000)
May 25, 2000–Jan 28, 2001
3 other works identified
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To Be Looked At: Painting and Sculpture from the Collection
Jul 3, 2002–Sep 6, 2004
3 other works identified
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Painting &
Sculpture II Nov 20, 2004–Aug 5, 2005
5 other works identified
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Painting &
Sculpture II Nov 20, 2004–Aug 5, 2005
4 other works identified
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Painting &
Sculpture II Nov 20, 2004–Aug 5, 2005
3 other works identified
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501: 19th-Century Innovators
Fall 2019–Fall 2021
4 other works identified
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501: 19th-Century Innovators
Fall 2019–Fall 2021
4 other works identified
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502: Cézanne, Gauguin, Seurat, Van Gogh
Mar 31, 2023–Mar 10, 2024
3 other works identified
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502: Cézanne, Gauguin, Seurat, Van Gogh
Mar 31, 2023–Mar 10, 2024
2 other works identified
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501: French Landscapes and Interiors
Ongoing
1 other work identified
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This work is included in the Provenance Research Project, which investigates the ownership history of works in MoMA's collection.
Estate of the artist (Madeleine Knobloch), Paris, 1891 [1]; acquired by Gustave Kahn (1859-1936), Paris, 1892 [2]. Victor Claessens, Waereghem, near Brussels, before 1923 [3]; by inheritance to his son Armand Claessens, Waereghem, near Brussels, 1929 [4]; sold to Wildenstein Galleries, New York, 1937 [5]; sold to Adele R. and David M. Levy, November 1938 [6]; The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1957 (Gift of Mrs. David M. Levy).
[1] C. M. de Hauke, Seurat et son oeuvre, Paris: Gründ, 1961, no. 167.
[2] Ibid. Henri Dorra and John Rewald, eds. Seurat, Paris: Les Beaux Arts, 1959, no. 171: "Gustave Kahn, Bruxelles (à partir de 1892)." Included in the exhibition Les XX, Brussels, 1892 (no. 8): "Embouchure de la Seine (Honfleur), Soir, appartient à M. G. Kahn."
[3] C. M. de Hauke, Seurat et son oeuvre, Paris: Gründ, 1961, no. 167. See letter Michel Callewaert, V.A. Claessens, Waereghem to C. de Hauke, Paris, January 17, 1958, Jacques Seligmann & Co. records, General correspondence: Michel Callewaert (Box 20, Folder 8), Archives of American Art, Washington, DC. Date of acquisition not known.
[4] Ibid. See Dorra and Rewald, 1959, no. 171. Included in the exhibition L'Impressionisme, Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels, June 15-September 29, 1935 (no. 75).
[5] See letter Michel Callewaert, V.A. Claessens, Waereghem to Wildenstein & Co., New York, December 20, 1957, Jacques Seligmann & Co. records, General correspondence: Michel Callewaert (Box 20, Folder 8), Archives of American Art, Washington, DC.
[6] Collection files, Department of Painting and Sculpture, The Museum of Modern Art, New York.
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