Georges Seurat

Bathers at Asnieres

US$ 690.00

Working-class Parisians rest on a riverbank in flat afternoon light, factory chimneys smoking across the water behind them, everything held in a stillness closer to fresco than to Impressionism. Seurat built the canvas from dozens of small outdoor studies and painted it in the studio using a system of controlled colour contrasts. He was twenty-four; the Salon rejected it.

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Georges Seurat (1859-1891) invented Pointillism and, more broadly, an approach to painting built on scientific theories of optical colour mixing, working in tiny separated dots or short strokes that the eye combines at a distance. He completed only a handful of major canvases before dying at 31, probably of meningitis. His method was taken up by Signac, Pissarro and a generation of Neo-Impressionists.

Material Archival canvas
Frame Supplied rolled, unframed
Print Fine-art print, printed to order
Size 54 × 36 inches
Delivery 2–3 weeks
Certificate of Authenticity Included, emailed on delivery
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