Vase Seurat

A Summer Sunday Afternoon on La Grande Jatte (1884-86)

In his largest and best-known painting, Seurat shows a typical Sunday in a park on the banks of the Seine in a suburb of Paris. He worked on this canvas for two years, making hundreds of sketches beforehand. The result became an icon of late 19th-century painting, characterized by the technique of pointillism, in which a color plane is composed of countless small dots in pure, often complementary colors. Seurat developed this ‘divisionist’ method on the basis of existing semi-scientific color theories. His work no longer reflects the search for spontaneous light in nature, like that of Monet or Renoir, but testifies to a belief in timeless art in the tradition of the old classics and the Italian Renaissance.

Height: 22cm