Description
This important study for a lost painting of the same name made its debut at the annual exhibition of the Belgian avant-garde society Les XX (The Twenty) in 1891. Georges Seurat had shown A Sunday on La Grand Jatte (1884/86; in the Art Institute’s collection) there just four years before. The most ambitious of Lemmen’s first Neo-Impressionist works, the composition depicts his sister, mother, and grandmother.
Provenance
Sold by the artist to Édouard Kohn (1825–1895), Paris, 1891 [Indianapolis 2014]. Kunsthandlung Gauss, Munich. Allan Frumkin (1926–2002), Chicago, probably by 1963 [Chicago 1963]; by descent to his wife, Jean, New York, from 2002. Jill Newhouse, New York, 2007. Art Research, Feldmeilen, Switzerland. Private collection, Belgium, by 2014; sold by Eric Gillis, Brussels, to the Art Institute of Chicago, 2015.
Accession Number
229007
Medium
Charcoal, with stumping and black Conté crayon, with touches of white gouache, on cream laid paper, fixed
Dimensions
47 × 59.3 cm (18 9/16 × 23 3/8 in.)
Classification
charcoal
Credit Line
Suzanne and Marjorie Pochter and Print and Drawing Funds