Georges Seurat OOC For Auction at 888 Auctions on Mar 12th, 2020

Georges Seurat French Modernist OOC GALERIE SIMON – Mar 12th, 2020

Oil on canvas. Featuring impressionist landscape scene with figures standing among the trees. Signed “Seurat” in the bottom right corner. Label affixed to verso reads “GALERIE SIMON 29 BIS, Rue d’Astorg PARIS (VIII) No Georges Pierre Seurat oil [illegible]”. Stamped with “Galerie Mathias Fels PARIS”. Stamped with “Musee d’Orsay Paris Francis”. Attributed to Georges Seurat (1859-1891, French). 40 x 60 cm (15.5 x 23.5 inches). PROVENANCE: This lot carries limited provenance from a Southern Ontario estate

Georges Seurat French Modernist OOC GALERIE SIMON – Lot 174 – March 12th, 2020

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Georges Seurat

Georges Seurat (1859-1891) was an important French artist best known as the creator of Pointillism. He employed dots of complementary colors next to one another to create vibrating scenes from everyday life. The artist’s most iconic work is A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte (1884–1886). A large-scale painting portraying the bourgeoisie having a leisurely day by the river. Seurat once explained, “Harmony is the analogy of contrary and similar elements of tone, of color, and of line, conditioned by the dominant key, and under the influence of a particular light, in gay, calm, or sad combinations”.

Born on December 2, 1859 in Paris, France, Seurat first pursued art at the École des Beaux-Arts. There he studied under Henri Lehmann, a disciple of Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres. In the early 1880s, the artist read several texts on color theory and optics that would inform his own technique. This included Michel Eugène Chevreul’s The Laws of Contrast of Color (1839). Working from both drawings and oil studies done en plein air, Seurat’s cerebral approach to color was a unique branch of the many iterations of Neo-Impressionism, and influenced both Henri-Edmond Cross and Paul Signac’s artistic development.

The artist’s ambitious painting The Circus (1890–1891) remained unfinished when he died unexpectedly on March 29, 1891 at the age of 31. Today, his works are held in the collections of the National Gallery in London, The Museum of Modern Art in New York, and the Musée d’Orsay in Paris, among others.

Auction Overview

Richmond Hill, ON – 397 fresh to market items will be available to the discerning buyers and collectors in 888 Auctions’ March 12th auction featuring the finest in . Taking place in the afternoon at 2 PM (EST), bidders will be competing against one another over a variety of items on display.

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