Rare Seurat Studies to Be Auctioned After Being Held Privately for Nearly a Century

Two studies by Georges Seurat that have been in private hands for almost a century will be auctioned at Christie’s next month during the house’s New York 20th century art evening sale on May 11. Paysage et personnages (La jupe rose), 1884 and Le Saint-Cyrien (1884) are together expected to fetch $10 million–$15 million.
Both done in Seurat’s signature pointillist style, the works are studies for his widely recognized painting A Sunday on La Grande Jatte (1884–86).