Description
Georges Seurat, The Channel at Gravelines, Evening (1890)
The Channel at Gravelines, Evening comes from Seurat’s last summer. He painted it in 1890 at Gravelines on the northern French coast, months before his death. An empty channel, an anchor on the sand, a lamp post, and a sky going pale into dusk. This painting is in the Museum of Modern Art, New York, accession 785.1963.a-b.
The last summer
Gravelines was Seurat’s final coastal subject. The four canvases of this channel are his last series; he died in March 1891, aged thirty-one.
The ownership history, stated openly
This canvas was confiscated from Paul Rosenberg in Paris by the ERR in 1941 during the German occupation, traded in 1942 through Goering’s agent, gathered at Bern after the war and returned to Rosenberg in 1948. MoMA publishes that history in full, and we repeat it here because it should be known.
The original
Oil on canvas, 81.9 × 65.4 cm, painted 1890. The Museum of Modern Art, New York; Gift of Mr. and Mrs. William A. M. Burden; accession 785.1963.a-b.
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One of the four Gravelines channel paintings – Seurat’s last coastal series.
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