Georges Seurat


Name
Georges Seurat
Life Dates
1859-1891
Country
France
Movement
Pointillism

Georges Seurat Biography

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).


Georges Seurat 84 Most Important Paintings and Artworks

  • Georges Seurat. Young Peasant in Blue.
    Young Peasant In Blue.

    1881-1882. Oil on wood. Musée d'Orsay, Paris, France.

  • Georges Seurat. The Forest at Pontaubert.
    The Forest At Pontaubert.

    c.1881-82. Oil on canvas. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.

  • Georges Seurat. Grassy Hill.
    Grassy Hill.

    1881-82. Oil on canvas. The Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, TX, USA.

  • Georges Seurat. Landscape.
    Landscape.

    c.1882. Oil on canvas. Corporate Art Collection, The Reader's Digest Association.

  • Georges Seurat. Ville-d'Avray, White Houses.
    Ville-D'Avray, White Houses.

    c.1882. Oil on canvas. Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool, UK.

  • Georges Seurat. View of l'lle-de-France.
    View Of L'Lle-De-France.

    c.1882. Oil on canvas. Musée des Beaux-Arts, Bordeaux, France.

  • Georges Seurat. Suburb.
    Suburb.

    1882-83. Oil on canvas. Musée d'Art Moderne, Troyes, France.

  • Georges Seurat. Rock-Breakers, Le Raincy.
    Rock-Breakers, Le Raincy.

    c.1882. Oil on canvas. Norton Simon Art Foundation, Pasadena, CA, USA.

  • Georges Seurat. Les Terrassiers.
    Les Terrassiers.

    c.1882. Oil on wood. Private collection.

  • Georges Seurat. Rock-Breaker with a Wheelbarrow.
    Rock-Breaker With A Wheelbarrow.

    c.1882. Oil on wood. The Phillips Collection, Washington, DC, USA.

  • Georges Seurat. Le Tacheron.
    Le Tacheron.

    c.1882. Oil on canvas. Private collection.

  • Georges Seurat. Seated Woman.
    Seated Woman.

    c.1882-83. Oil on canvas. The Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY, USA.

  • Georges Seurat. Peasant with a Hoe.
    Peasant With A Hoe.

    c.1882. Oil on canvas. The Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY, USA.

  • Georges Seurat. Landscape.
    Landscape.

    1882-83. Oil on wood. Private collection.

  • Georges Seurat. Cows in a Field.
    Cows In A Field.

    1882. Oil on wood. Private collection.

  • Georges Seurat. Landscape with a Horse.
    Landscape With A Horse.

    c.1882. Oil on wood. Private collection.

  • Georges Seurat. Horse in a Field.
    Horse In A Field.

    c.1882. Oil on canvas. The Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY, USA.

  • Georges Seurat. Pierrot with a White Pipe. (Aman-Jean).
    Pierrot With A White Pipe. (Aman-Jean).

    1883. Oil on canvas. Private collection.

  • Georges Seurat. Forest of Barbizon.
    Forest Of Barbizon.

    1883. Oil on wood. Private collection.

  • Georges Seurat. Watering Can.
    Watering Can.

    1883. Oil on wood. Private collection.

Georges Seurat Bibliography

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.

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