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There she gave birth to their son, who was named Pierre-Georges, on 16 February 1890. [ 24 ] Seurat spent the summer of 1890 on the coast at Gravelines , where he painted four canvases including The Channel of Gravelines, Petit Fort Philippe , as well as eight oil panels, and made a few drawings.
Portrait of Seurat by Maximilien Luce. This is a list of notable paintings by Georges Seurat (2 December 1859 - 29 March 1891). He is a Neo-Impressionist painter and together with Paul Signac noted for being the inventor of pointillism. [1] The listing follows the 1980 book Georges Seurat and uses its catalogue numbers. [2]
A small collective of innovative artists—Paul Cézanne, Paul Gauguin, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Camille Pissarro along with Albert Dubois-Pillet, Odilon Redon, Georges Seurat, Paul Signac—created the Salon des Indépendants. The right to present their works to the public with no restrictions was their only condition.
Models, also known as The Three Models and Les Poseuses, is a work by Georges Seurat, painted between 1886 and 1888 and held by the Barnes Foundation in Philadelphia. Models was exhibited at the fourth Salon des Indépendants in spring of 1888.
Jun. 23—In his masterpiece "A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte," the French post-Impressionist Georges Seurat demanded that the world look at art in a shocking new way. He never ...
The couple's first son, Frédérick, was born on 5 June 1894, but he died fifteen months later, on 2 September 1895. [11] Their second child, whom they also named Frédérick, was born in 1896, [ 12 ] and in 1903 they adopted Ambroisine's nephew Georges Édouard Bouin, who had become orphaned.
Georges Seurat, Study for "A Sunday Afternoon on La Grande Jatte", 1884, oil on canvas, 70.5 x 104.1 cm, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Georges Seurat painted A Sunday Afternoon between May 1884 and March 1885, and from October 1885 to May 1886, focusing meticulously on the landscape of the park [2] and concentrating on issues of colour, light, and form.
He was a close friend of Georges Seurat; [4] the two artists shared a Paris studio in 1879. Art historian Robert Herbert called Seurat's portrait of Aman-Jean, "one of the great portrait drawings of the nineteenth century." [5] It was the first work Seurat showed, at the Paris Salon in 1883. Aman-Jean also worked in lithography and printmaking ...