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  DSC_0156.jpg - In the summer of 1924, Frederic Bartlett and his wife, Helen, had the opportunity to purchase George Seurat's masterpiece A Sunday on La Grande Jatte.Writing from an ocean liner en route to the United States from Europe, he enthused:We have had a wonderfully good luck... as we were able to get almost by a miracle what is considered to be almost the finest modern picture in France, La Grande Jatte by Seurat.Seurat's Grande Jatte remains the centerpiece of a collection of over 20 "modern" European paintings spanning four decades, beginning in the mid-1990s, that Bartlett began assembling around 1920. In 1926 he gave his collection to the Art Institute in memory of his recently deceased wife.  
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DSC 0156 | In the summer of 1924, Frederic Bartlett and his wife, Helen, had the opportunity to purchase George Seurat's masterpiece A Sunday on La Grande Jatte. Writing from an ocean liner en route to the United States from Europe, he enthused: We have had a wonderfully good luck... as we were able to get almost by a miracle what is considered to be almost the finest modern picture in France, La Grande Jatte by Seurat. Seurat's Grande Jatte remains the centerpiece of a collection of over 20 "modern" European paintings spanning four decades, beginning in the mid-1990s, that Bartlett began assembling around 1920. In 1926 he gave his collection to the Art Institute in memory of his recently deceased wife. Download
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