Tree Trunks (study for La Grande Jatte)
Georges Seurat · 1884 · Black Conté crayon on ivory laid paper
Public domain
Marked public domain (CC0) by the Art Institute of Chicago.
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About this picture
Tree Trunks (study for La Grande Jatte) is a public-domain drawing by Georges Seurat, dated 1884. Black Conté crayon on ivory laid paper. The file comes from Art Institute of Chicago.
“Tree Trunks (study for La Grande Jatte)” (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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