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The Circus
1896
(French, 1867–1936)
Bequest of Leonard C. Hanna Jr. 1958.13
Location: Not on view
- After 1896-before 1948Félix Fénéon [1861-1944], Paris, sold to M. Joseph Bernheim, Paris?-?M. Joseph Bernheim, Paris?-1952(Galerie Bernheim-Jeune, Paris, sold to M. Knoedler and Co., New York)1952-1953(M. Knoedler and Co., New York, sold to Leonard C. Hanna, Jr., Cleveland, OH)1953-1958Leonard C. Hanna, Jr. [1889-1957], Cleveland, OH, by bequest to the Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH1958-The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OHProvenance Footnotes1 According to Knoedler Gallery Archives, Getty Research Institute.
- The Cleveland Museum of Art. In Memoriam: Leonard C. Hanna, Jr. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1958. Mentioned and Reproduced: fig. 102"Annual Report of the Year 1958." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 46, no. 6 (1959): 111-58. Mentioned: p. 125. www.jstor.orgSchapiro, Meyer. "Seurat: Reflections." Art News Annual, XXIX (1964); 18-41. Reproduced: p. 27O'Toole, Judith Hansen. "Henri-Gabriel Ibels and Georges Seurat: An Attribution Confirmed." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 69, no. 7 (1982): 236-43. Mentioned: pp. 237-239, 243; Reproduced: p. 236, fig. 1 www.jstor.orgBorowitz, Helen O. "Three Guitars: Reflections of Italian Comedy in Watteau, Daumier, and Picasso." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 71, no. 4 (1984): 116-29. Mentioned and Reproduced: p. 122, fig. 10 www.jstor.org
- French Drawings from the Collection. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (December 13, 1994-March 12, 1995).Directions in Drawing: 1750-1988. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (April 2-August 4, 1991).The Artist and the Theater. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (April 5-September 12, 1960).Department of Prints and Drawings Opening Exhibition. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (March 3, 1958-October 11, 1959).
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