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Georges Seurat

1859–1891

Unidentified photographer. Portrait of Georges Seurat, 1888.
Unidentified photographer. Portrait of Georges Seurat, 1888.

Seurat studied at the École des Beaux-Arts with Henri Lehmann, a pupil of Ingres, and copied early Italian and seventeenth-century French painting in the Louvre. His mature technique combined academic training, Impressionist practice and contemporary theories of optical color relationships.

Paintings and other works

A Sunday on La Grande Jatte — Georges SeuratGeorges Seurat

A Sunday on La Grande Jatte

1884–1886; border 1888–1889Circus Sideshow (Parade de cirque) — Georges SeuratGeorges Seurat

Circus Sideshow (Parade de cirque)

1887–88Study for "A Sunday on La Grande Jatte" — Georges SeuratGeorges Seurat

Study for "A Sunday on La Grande Jatte"

1884Seascape at Port-en-Bessin, Normandy — Georges SeuratGeorges Seurat

Seascape at Port-en-Bessin, Normandy

1888

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Sources

Unidentified photographer, Georges Seurat, 1888. Reproduced in Lucie Cousturier’s Seurat; Wikimedia Commons. Public domain. Portrait source · Licence