Seurat

On the occasion of the centenary of the death of Georges Seurat (1859-1891), this first large retrospective of his work ever organised in France gathered around a hundred paintings and about a hundred and twenty drawings by the leader and theoretician of neo-impressionism.


The large character compositions, the series of landscapes and seascapes from public and private collections around the world displayed at this exhibition paid a brilliant homage to the man who embodied one of the major avant-garde movements of this particularly wealthy period in the field of painting. Some large paintings by Seurat, impossible to move, were represented - such as Un dimanche après-midi à la Grande Jatte (a Sunday afternoon at La Grande Jatte)- through painted studies and sketches. The exhibition gave a very accurate idea of Seurat's work, in particular as it showed its less well-known but still exceptional aspect : his drawings.