Room 187

Georges Seurat

1859–1891, France (Paris), Neo-Impressionism (Pointillism)

Seurat did not mix his colours but set them side by side in small dots – only in the viewer’s eye were they meant to merge into luminous tones. To do so he studied the colour theories of his day. For his large paintings such as “A Sunday on La Grande Jatte” he painted dozens of small studies on wooden panels; several of them hang here. He died aged only 31.

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