short biography

Georges Seurat (1859 born in Paris, 1891 died in Paris) was the founder of Pointillism. He studied at École des Beaux-Arts, Paris, but left the Academy prematurely and developed his own painting technique.

Impressionism, development of pointillism, paintings, drawings

https://www.guggenheim.org/artwork/artist/georges-seurat

show more show less

collection/s

Art Institute Chicago Courtauld, London DIA Detroit Institute of Arts Fondation Beyeler, Riehen/Basel Hiroshima Museum of Art Indianapolis Museum of Art Karl Ernst Osthaus-Museum Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo MOMA - The Museum of Modern Art, New York Menil Collection, Houston Museum of Fine Arts, Houston Musée d´Orsay, Paris National Gallery, London Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City Norton Simon Museum, Pasadena Philadelphia Museum of Art Picasso Museum - Luzern Punta della Dogana, Venice Smith College Museum of Art, Northampton Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York Tacoma Art Museum Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam Von der Heydt-Museum Wuppertal Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven
show more show less

galleries

Acquavella Galleries, New York Thomas Gibson Fine Art, London
show more show less