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A Sunday on La Grande Jatte — 1884, Georges Seurat
A Sunday on La Grande Jatte — 1884, 1884–86, border added 1888–89

Georges Seurat

1859–1891 · Post-Impressionism, Neo-Impressionism, Impressionism · 17 works

Seurat explored how small touches of separate colors could build a picture. His carefully planned scenes grew from drawings and painted studies. In La Grande Jatte, the arrangement of people and the patient placing of marks turn a riverside afternoon into something still and strange.

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Life and work

1886
La Grande Jatte is exhibited

Seurat showed the finished painting at the eighth and final Impressionist exhibition.

Sources

17 works · 1876–1888

Compare a study with the finished scene. What changes as you move farther away?

Original museum reproductions, with source records on every artwork page.

Artist information: Art Institute of Chicago.

Public-domain art. An imagined museum; no museum affiliation.