A Sunday on La Grande Jatte, 1884
La Grande Jatte
Georges Seurat · 1884 to 1886
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An island in the Seine. A Sunday.
Seurat works on it from 1884 to 1886.
Dot by dot.
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Bottom right, a woman with a parasol.
At her feet, a pet monkey.
An old emblem of vice.
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Look at the edge.
A border of red, orange and blue dots.
He painted it on in 1888 to 1889.
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Some of his strokes are zinc yellow.
New. Vivid. Unstable.
Within a few years, they start to brown.
The yellows you see are not the yellows he painted.
The whole island.
Every dot.
“Art is Harmony.”
1926
Seurat dies in 1891. He is 31.
Frederic Clay Bartlett buys the painting in 1924.
In 1926 he gives it to the Art Institute of Chicago.
In memory of his wife, Helen.
Georges Seurat
French · Pointillism · 1859 to 1891
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