Artwork Details
Artist
Creation Date
Materials
Object Types
Dimensions
28-7/8 x 36-1/4 in. (canvas) 36-1/8 x 43-3/4 x 1-13/16 in. (framed, glazed)
Mark Description
Signed in blue paint, lower right: Seurat, 1890
Accession Number
Credit Line
Gift of Mrs. James W. Fesler in memory of Daniel W. and Elizabeth C. Marmon
Copyright
Collection
European Painting and Sculpture 1800-1945
Color Palette
Provenance
(Reid and Lefevre, London, England) by 1926.{1} (Bignou Gallery, New York, New York) by 1937.{2} (M. Knoedler & Co., New York, New York) by 1945;{3} purchased by Caroline Marmon Fesler [1878-1960], Indianapolis, Indiana, in June 1945; given to the John Herron Art Institute, now the Indianapolis Museum of Art at Newfields, in 1945.{4} {1} See Roger Fry, Transformations: Critical and Speculative Essays on Art, London 1926, p. 195 and plate XXX-A. {2} See Bignou Gallery, New York, The Post-Impressionists, March-April 1927, no. 10 (illustration) {3} Business ties were frequent between Bignou Gallery, Reid & Lefevre and M. Knoedler, sometimes involving joint accounts for particular works, as was the case with van Gogh's Postman Joseph Roulin at the Museum of Fine Arts Boston. {4} IMA Temporary Receipt No. 4699.
Gallery Labels
- For this tranquil harbor scene in northern France, Seurat, leader of the Neo-Impressionist movement, methodically applied fine points of color, capturing the purity of coastal air and light.
- Carefully arranging the vertical and horizontal elements of his subject, he constructed a deftly balanced composition that is remarkably faithful to the actual appearance of the port.
- The frame is a reproduction based on Seurat’s original frames for his seascapes. Its ultramarine blue enhances the scene’s luminosity, while the flecks of color repeat the hues of the canvas’s narrow dotted border.
Exhibition History
Exhibition Name
Venue
Dates
Seurat: Master of Pointillism
Kröller-Müller Museum
May 23, 2014 - September 7, 2014
Indianapolis Museum of Art
February 24, 1996 - April 2, 1996
Seurat
Metropolitan Museum of Art
September 9, 1991 - January 12, 1992
Seurat
Galeries Nationales, Grand Palais Champs-Elysées
April 10, 1991 - August 10, 1991
Indianapolis Museum of Art
October 14, 1990 - November 25, 1990
Exposition for the Family
Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum
1988 - 1988
Exposition du Pointillisme
Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art
June 4, 1985 - July 14, 1985
Exposition du Pointillisme
Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum
April 6, 1985 - May 26, 1985
Exposition du Pointillisme
Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art
1985 - 1985
Exhibition du Pointillisme
Tokyo Metropolitan Teien Art Museum
1985 - 1985
Old Masters of Modern Art
The Rochester Memorial Art Gallery
April 10, 1944 - May 7, 1944
Twelve Masterpieces of XIX Century French Painting
Bignou Gallery
November 1, 1943 - December 4, 1943
Seurat and His Contemporaries
Wildenstein Galleries, London
January 20, 1937 - February 27, 1937
Seurat et ses amis
École des Beaux-Arts
1933 - 1934
French Art
Walker Art Gallery
1933 - 1933
Le Néo-Impressionisme
Galerie d'Art Braun et Cie
1932 - 1932
Trente ans d'Art Independant, Rétrospective
Réunion des Musées Nationaux Grand Palais
February 20, 1926 - March 21, 1926
Rétrospective Georges Seurat
Bernheim Jeune
1908 - 1909
Franzosiche Kunstler
Kunstverein Karlsruhe
1906 - 1907
Franzosiche Kunstler
Kunstverein Frankfort
1906 - 1907
Franzosiche Kunstler
Kunstverein Munich
1906 - 1907
Franzosiche Kunstler
Württembergische Kunstverein Stuttgart
1906 - 1907
Franzosiche Kunstler
Ernst Arnold Galerie
1906 - 1907
Fransosiche Kunstler
Ernst Arnold Galerie
1907 - 1907
Loan Exhibition of Paintings
Art Gallery of Ontario
Dates Unknown
Exhibition of Pictures and Drawings by Georges Seurat
Lefèvre Galleries
Dates Unknown
Exhibition of French Art
The Royal Academy of Arts London
Dates Unknown
French Art of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
Rhode Island School of Design
Dates Unknown
French Art, 1200-1900
The Royal Academy of Arts London
Dates Unknown
A Century of French Painting
McClellan Galleries
Dates Unknown
Post Impressionists
Bignou Gallery
Dates Unknown
The XIXth Century French Masters
Lefèvre Galleries
Dates Unknown
Exposition des Peintres Neo-Impressionnistes
Salon de l'Hotel Brébant
December 2, 1893 - January 8, 1893
Exposition des Peintres Neo-Impressionistes
Salon de l'Hotel Brébant
December 2, 1892 - January 8, 1893
Seurat Retrospective
Société des Artistes Indépendants
1891 - 1891
Les XX
Musée Modern Museum
Date Unknown - 1891
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