Seurat Most Famous for Paris Park Painting Yet Half His Paintings Were Seascapes
(www.smithsonianmag.com)
The most famous painting is in Chicago, with Grant Wood's American Gothic and Edward Hopper's Nighthawks.
replyI have seen it several times.
Un dimanche après-midi à l'Île de la Grande Jatte is an impressive work. Seeing it in a book or online doesn't do it justice.
replyParticularly because, although there are smaller "study" versions as he worked up to it, the painting itself is 10 feet wide and most references don't include that context (at least not visually, they often list the numbers.)
replyWent to this exhibition in London two weeks ago and can highly recommend!
replyAnd yet the article does not show the Paris Park Painting?
replyIt links to it, but no the article is about his seascapes.
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replyAnd yet, he finished that hat.
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