File:Georges Seurat - Port-en-Bessin - 55.38 - Minneapolis Institute of Arts.jpg
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Georges Seurat: Port-en-Bessin, Bridge and Port
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| Title |
English: Port-en-Bessin |
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painting  |
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| Description |
English: Pointillism. Landscape. Fishing port. |
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| Date | 1888 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Medium | oil on canvas | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Dimensions |
height: 67 cm (26.3 in) ; width: 84.5 cm (33.2 in) |
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| Accession number |
55.38 |
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| Place of creation |
France |
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| Object history |
Presumably sold by the artist's family after the 1892 Paris exhibition. (Possibly with Galerie Barbazanges, Paris, France). Salomon van Deventer, Wassenaar and The Hague, The Netherlands, from 1913 until at least 1937;[1] (Paul Rosenberg and Co., New York, New York in 1937); (sold to Reid and Lefevre, London, England in 1937); sold to Mrs. (Edith Dunn) Alfred Chester Beatty [d. 1952], London, England in 1937, until her death in 1952;[2] by descent to Sir Alfred Chester Beatty [d. 1968], Dublin, Ireland, from 1952 to 1955; (sold to Paul Rosenberg and Co., New York, New York in 1955); sold to MIA in 1955. [1] The work was owned jointly by van Deventer with Étienne Bignou, Paris, France, from at least 1934-1935. The work may have been with Galerie Huink and Scherjon, Amsterdam, The Netherlands in 1936. [2] Edith Dunn was Sir Alfred Chester Beatty's second wife. |
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| Credit line | The William Hood Dunwoody Fund | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Source/Photographer | Minneapolis Institute of Arts | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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