Georges Seurat

1859-1891 · French · Neo-Impressionism, Pointillism

Biografia

Georges Seurat (1859-1891) founded Neo-Impressionism, replacing the spontaneous brushwork of Impressionism with a systematic technique of small, separate dots of pure colour based on contemporary optical theory. A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte, now in the Art Institute of Chicago, became a manifesto of modern painting and influenced Signac, Van Gogh, the Fauves and later abstraction. He died at 31, leaving only a handful of major canvases plus oil sketches and celebrated conté crayon drawings. For the market this extreme scarcity matters: important paintings almost never come up, and when they do they set landmark prices, as with Les Poseuses, Ensemble (Petite version), sold for $149.2 million at Christie's New York in 2022.

Rynek

• Płynność: Niska

Muzea

• Art Institute of Chicago
• National Gallery, Londra
• Musée d'Orsay, Parigi
• Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
• Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo

Źródła

• BBC News, Paul Allen record-breaking $1.5bn art sale
• Wikipedia, List of most expensive paintings
• Wikipedia, Models (painting)

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