SEURAT

Bathing at Asniers	Boats Bateux Maree Basse Grandcamp	Sunday Afternoon at La Grande Jatte	Horse in a Field	The Eiffel Tower	The Seine at La Grande Jatte
La Maria Honfleur	La Parade	Le Chahut	Les Poseuses	Port en Bessin	Watering Can

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Georges-Pierre Seurat

December 2, 1859 - March 29, 1891

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Biography

Georges-Pierre Seurat was a French painter and the founder of Neoimpressionism. His large work Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte is one of the icons of the 19th century painting. Georges Pierre Seurat was born to a well-off family in Paris. His father, a legal official, was very solitary. Immediaty, he became interested in art, and studied with Justin Lequien, who was a sculpter.

Seurat attended the École des Beaux-Arts in 1878 and 1879. After a year of service at Brest military academy, he returned to Paris in 1880. He shared a small studio on the Left Bank with two student friends before moving to a studio of his own. For the next two years he devoted himself to mastering the art of black and white drawing. He spent 1883 on his first major painting — a huge canvas titled Bathing at Asnières (see Asnières-sur-Seine).

After his painting was rejected by the Paris Salon, Seurat turned away from establishments such as the Salon, instead allying himself with the independent artists of Paris. In 1884 he and other artists (including Maximilien Luce) formed the Société des Artistes Indépendants. There he met a fellow artist, Paul Signac, with whom he became a good friend. Seurat shared his new ideas about pointillism with Signac, who met them with great joy. In the summer of 1884 Seurat began work on his masterpiece, Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte, which took him two years to complete.

Later he moved from the Boulevard de Clichy to a quieter studio nearby, where he lived secretly with a young model, Madeleine Knobloch. In February 1890 she gave birth to his son. It was not until two days before his death that he introduced his young family to his parents. Shortly after his death, Madeleine, gave birth to his second son, of which his name is unknown. Seurat died at the young age of 31, of diphtheria, and was buried in Cimetière du Père-Lachaise. His last ambitious work, The Circus, was left unfinished at the time of his death.

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