Study for The Channel at Gravelines, Evening
Drawing
1890 (made)
1890 (made)
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Drawing in conte crayon of two anchors propped on their sides. The paper is Michallet (a brand of Ingres) paper.
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| Materials and techniques | Crayon |
| Brief description | Drawing in conte crayon of two anchors by Georges Seurat. A study for a later oil painting entitled 'The Channel at Gravelines, Evening'. France, 1890. |
| Physical description | Drawing in conte crayon of two anchors propped on their sides. The paper is Michallet (a brand of Ingres) paper. |
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| Object history | This drawing was no. 174 in the 1891 posthumous inventory of Seurat's studio made by Félix Fénéon. Provenance: Emile Seurat, Édouard Vuillard, M. Jacques Roussel Exhibited: La Revue Blanche, Seurat, Paris, 1900; Galerie Bernheim-Jeune, Les dessins de Seurat, no. 136, Paris, 1926; Galerie Paul Rosenberg, Georges Seurat, no. 129, Paris, 1936. |
| Production | This was one of nine drawings made by Seurat for an oil painting at Gravelines on the Channel coast in the summer of 1890. |
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| Accession number | P.4-1982 |
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| Record created | June 30, 2009 |
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