Study for "A Sunday on La Grande Jatte"
Georges Seurat, 1884
For now, just to look at
The photograph we have of this work is not sharp enough to print at the quality we want, so we are not selling it for now. We are looking for a better one.
About the work
- Artist
- Georges Seurat
- Date
- 1884
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 27 3/4 x 41 in (70.5 x 104.1 cm)
- Collection
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
- Reference
- XDV-1717
What the museum label doesn't tell you
Seurat's style came to be known as pointillism, though he himself preferred to call it divisionism, the principle of separating colour into small juxtaposed touches that blend in the viewer's eye.
