Acquisition By The Art Institute of Chicago
In 1923 Frederick Bartlett was appointed trustee of the Art Institute of Chicago, he and his second wife Helen Birch Bartlett loaned their collection of French Post-Impressionist and Modernist art to the museum. It was his wife Helen who had an interest in French and avant-garde artists and influenced her husband's collecting tastes. Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte was purchased on the advice of the Art Institute of Chicago's curatorial staff in 1924.
In conceptual artist Don Celender's 1974–5 book Observation and Scholarship Examination for Art Historians, Museum Directors, Artists, Dealers and Collectors, it is claimed that the Institute paid $24,000.00 for the work. However, as the painting is currently held in the Art Institute of Chicago's Helen Birch Memorial Collection, it is unclear as to whether this answer is correct or whether the Institute assisted the Bartletts in their purchase of it.
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