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

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collection/s

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 Pinault Collection - Bourse de Commerce, Paris Punta della Dogana, Venice Smith College Museum of Art, Northampton Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York Tacoma Art Museum The Art Institute Chicago Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam Von der Heydt-Museum Wuppertal Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven
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galleries

Acquavella Galleries, New York Thomas Gibson Fine Art, London
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