Georges Pierre Seurat was born on 2 December 1859 in Paris. His father, Chrysostome-Antoine Seurat, had been a legal official in La Villette. He had saved a substantial amount of money and lived a secluded life as a pensioner in his house in the Provence and visited his family in Paris just once a week. Seurat’s mother, Ernestine Faivre, came from a prosperous middle-class Parisian family. During his schooldays, Seurat was introduced to painting by an uncle on his mother's side, the textile dealer Paul Haumonté-Faivre, himself an amateur painter. In 1875 he started to attend a drawing class taught by the sculptor Justin Lequien at a night school in the city. There he made friends with Edmond Aman-Jean (1858-1935/36).
1881-1882. Oil on wood. Musée d'Orsay, Paris, France.
c.1881-82. Oil on canvas. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.
1881-82. Oil on canvas. The Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, TX, USA.
c.1882. Oil on canvas. Corporate Art Collection, The Reader's Digest Association.
c.1882. Oil on canvas. Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool, UK.
c.1882. Oil on canvas. Musée des Beaux-Arts, Bordeaux, France.
1882-83. Oil on canvas. Musée d'Art Moderne, Troyes, France.
c.1882. Oil on canvas. Norton Simon Art Foundation, Pasadena, CA, USA.
c.1882. Oil on wood. Private collection.
c.1882. Oil on wood. The Phillips Collection, Washington, DC, USA.
c.1882. Oil on canvas. Private collection.
c.1882-83. Oil on canvas. The Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY, USA.
c.1882. Oil on canvas. The Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY, USA.
1882-83. Oil on wood. Private collection.
1882. Oil on wood. Private collection.
c.1882. Oil on wood. Private collection.
c.1882. Oil on canvas. The Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY, USA.
1883. Oil on canvas. Private collection.
1883. Oil on wood. Private collection.
1883. Oil on wood. Private collection.
Henri Perruchot. La vie de Seurat. Hachette. 1966
Seurat: A biography. By L. Rewald. NY. 1990
Georges Seurat. 1859-1891. The Master of Pointillism. By Hajo Düchting. Taschen. 1999.
Seurat (World of Art) by John Russell. Thames & Hudson. 1985.
Seurat and the Avant-Garde by Paul Smith. Yale Univ Pr, 1997.
Seurat: Drawings and Paintings by Robert L. Herbert. Yale Univ Pr, 2001.
Georges Seurat (Masters of Art) by Pierre Courthion. Harry N Abrams, 1988.
Seurat and the Bathers by John Leighton, Richard Thomson. Yale University Press, 1997.
Van Gogh and Friends Art Game: With Cezanne, Gauguin, Seurat, Rousseau and Toulouse-Lautrec by Wenda Brewster O'Reilly. Birdcage Books, 2002.