Oil Sketch for "A Sunday on La Grande Jatte — 1884"
Georges Seurat · 1884 · Oil on panel
Public domain
Marked public domain (CC0) by the Art Institute of Chicago.
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About this picture
Oil Sketch for "A Sunday on La Grande Jatte — 1884" is a public-domain painting by Georges Seurat, dated 1884. Oil on panel. The file comes from Art Institute of Chicago.
“Oil Sketch for "A Sunday on La Grande Jatte — 1884"” (1884) uses Seurat’s divided color. A small sheet is usually a study. It is not automatically the Grande Jatte itself.
About the artist
Georges Seurat (1859–1891) built pictures from small dots of contrasting color. A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte is the large canvas. Many other works are studies for it or for the same method.
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