Art, literature & historyStudy for "La Grande Jatte"
Georges Seurat · 1884/1885
Georges Seurat: 1859–1891
Other names (9)
George Pierre Seurat, Georges-Pierre Seurat, georges seurat, geo. seurat, g. seurat, Hsiu-la, Seurat, seurat geo., Zhorzh Sera
Biography
Georges Pierre Seurat (UK: SUR-ah, -ə, US: suu-RAH; French: [ʒɔʁʒ pjɛʁ sœʁa]; 2 December 1859 – 29 March 1891) was a French post-Impressionist artist. He devised the painting techniques known as chromoluminarism and pointillism and used conté crayon for drawings on paper with a rough surface.
Seurat's artistic personality combined qualities that are usually thought of as opposed and incompatible: on the one hand, his extreme and delicate sensibility, on the other, a passion for logical abstraction and an almost mathematical precision of mind. His large-scale work A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte (1884–1886) altered the direction of modern art by initiating Neo-Impressionism, and is one of the icons of late 19th-century painting.
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Influenced by
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- Charles Angrandeditorial inference
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Artworks by year
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Museums & collections
Documented holdings of works attributed to Georges Seurat. Check the museum’s record for current display information.
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art24 recorded works
- National Gallery of Art17 recorded works
- Art Institute of Chicago12 recorded works
- Musée d’Orsay12 recorded works
- National Gallery6 recorded works
- Museum of Modern Art4 recorded works
- Kröller-Müller Museum2 recorded works
- musée d'Art Moderne — Troyes2 recorded works
- Tate2 recorded works
- The Cleveland Museum of Art2 recorded works
- The Courtauld Gallery2 recorded works
- Buffalo AKG Art Museum1 recorded work
- Minneapolis Institute of Art1 recorded work
- musée des beaux-arts — Bordeaux1 recorded work
- Scottish National Gallery1 recorded work
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- National Gallery of Art
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- Pantheon 2025 — Datawheel (CC BY-SA 4.0)
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- Tate Collection metadata (October 2014 snapshot)
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- Expanded artwork research — official museum evidence
- Pantheon 2025 — Datawheel (CC BY-SA 4.0)
