Georges Seurat · 1884–1886
A Sunday on La Grande Jatte
Georges Seurat
A Sunday on La Grande Jatte
1884–1886
Georges Seurat's 'A Sunday on La Grande Jatte' (1884–1886) is the manifesto of Neo-Impressionism. Across a 2 × 3 m canvas, forty-eight Parisians and their pets pause in suspended Sunday calm along the Seine at the Île de la Grande Jatte, rendered in Seurat's painstakingly controlled pointillism — thousands of unmixed primary dots that the eye blends into luminous flesh, grass, and shadow. Bequeathed to the Art Institute of Chicago in 1926, it remains the single most important 19th-century French painting in an American museum.
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