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Your galleryA Sunday on La Grande Jatte — 1884
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Look from the tiny marks of color to the still figures, then notice that the painted border also uses colored dots.
Seurat developed this large painting through drawings, oil studies, and repeated revisions from 1884 to 1886. He added the dotted border in 1888–89, continuing his experiments with neighboring colors beyond the park scene itself.
Oil on canvas · 207.5 × 308.1 cm · Art Institute of Chicago · Post-Impressionism · Impressionism · Neo-Impressionism
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- Museum title
- A Sunday on La Grande Jatte — 1884
- Artist
- Georges Seurat
- Date
- 1884–86, border added 1888–89
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 207.5 × 308.1 cm (81 3/4 × 121 1/4 in.)
- Credit line
- Helen Birch Bartlett Memorial Collection
- Image license
- CC0 1.0 · Public domain
- Museum record
- Art Institute of Chicago
Galler’s rooms and hanging scale are imagined. The image is the museum’s original digital reproduction.