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[[preprinted]] JACQUES SELIGMANN & CO., INC.
5 EAST 57TH STREET
NEW YORK 22, N.Y.

PAINTINGS
WORKS OF ART
CABLE ADDRESS: GLAENSTARK
TELEPHONE: PLAZA-3-0250 [[/preprinted]]

Mr. Ake Bonnier
605 Madison Avenue
New York 22, N.Y.

July 3, 1953


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[[column 1]] No. 7740 [[/column 1]]

[[column 2]] SEURAT, Georges (1859 - 1881)
[[underlined]] "THE LEG" [[/underlined]] Conté crayon drawing: 9-1/4" x 12"

Inscribed on back in Felix Fénéon's own handwriting? "Seurat, La Baignade", and the numberal 367.

Study for "La Baignade" 1883-84, one of the artists major works now in the Tate Gallery, London.

This drawing shows the right leg of a person who is apparently lying down, from a little above the knee.

[[underlined]] Collection [[/underlined]]: Felix Fénéon.

[[underlined]] Reproduced [[/underlined]]: "Les Dessins de Georges Seurat" (ed. M.M. Bernheim-Jeune. No. 85.
"Georges Seurat" by John Rewald, 1943, No. 13, page 15.
"Drawings of Georges Seurat" by Germain Seligman, 1947; pl. 5, Cat. No. 5. 
"Modern European Art", Cornell Univ. Willard Straight Hall; Mar. 2-22, '49, #1.

[[underlined]] Exhibited [[/underlined]]: "Exposition de l'Art Francais de XIXe et XXe Siècle, Prague, 1923, No. 166
"The Nude in Art", Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, Conn., Jan. 1-Feb. 3, 1946.
"Seurat, his Drawings", Buchholz Gallery, New York, March 4-29, 1947, #2. 
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