Broude, Norma. Seurat in Perspective. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall , 1978
Georges Seurat
Born: Paris, 2 December 1859
Died: Paris, 29 March 1891
Nationality: French
Died: Paris, 29 March 1891
Nationality: French
Background:
Urban, middle class
Studies:
With Ingres's pupil Henri Lehmann at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts (1878-79
Self-study at Louvre
Career:
1879 - military service
1880 - returned to Paris
1883 - exhibits at Paris Salon (portrait drawing of painter Edmond Aman-Jean, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York)
1884 - exhibits at Cercle des Arts Libéraux; exhibits Bathers at Asnières at Salon
1887 - exhibits with Les XX in Brussels (also 1889 and 1891)
1891 - Circus exhibited posthumously at Salon des Indépendents
Important Artworks:
Bathers at Asnières, 1884 Salon (National Gallery, London)
Circus Sideshow, 1887-88 (Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York)
Young Woman Powdering Herself, 1888-89 (Courtauld Institute, London)
Le Chahut, 1889-90 (Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo)
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