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The Art Institute of Chicago — public domain (CC0). Helen Birch Bartlett Memorial Collection Source

3 Lot Sold

Georges Seurat

French, 1859–1891

A Sunday on La Grande Jatte — 1884

Date: 1884–86, border added 1888–89
Medium: Oil on canvas
Dimensions: 207.5 × 308.1 cm (81 3/4 × 121 1/4 in.)
Department: Impressionist & Modern Art

Price realised £71,400,000

Offered in Impressionist & Modern Art — Spring Evening Sale, 14 May 2026

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A Under raking light

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Relief

Derived from this photograph by shape-from-shading, as a reading aid. A measured relief map requires photometric stereo and accompanies the full condition report.

B Catalogue note

Provenance

The artist's studio
Private collection, Brussels
Acquired from the above by the present owner, 1971

Exhibited

Paris, eighth Impressionist exhibition, 1886
Brussels, Les XX, 1887

Literature

Dorra and Rewald, Seurat, no. 162
de Hauke, Seurat et son œuvre, vol. I, no. 162

Condition

The painted border is original to the composition and was added by the artist. Surface stable; the pointillist handling has not been abraded by past cleaning.

This is a summary. A full written condition report, with raking-light and ultraviolet photography, is issued on request and forms part of the description.

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