A Sunday on La Grande Jatte, Georges Seurat
Georges Seurat·A Sunday on La Grande Jatte·1884–86·Oil on canvas·The Art Institute of Chicago↓

Georges Seurat French, 1859 – 1891

A Sunday on La Grande Jatte, 1884–86

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Parisians of every class relax on an island in the Seine, rendered in thousands of tiny dots of pure colour. The Impressionist theme of leisure is frozen into something geometric and strangely solemn.

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Seurat later added a painted border of dots around the edge, to control how the picture meets its frame.

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