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    Delphi Complete Paintings of Georges Seurat (Illustrated)
    Delphi Complete Paintings of Georges Seurat (Illustrated)
    Delphi Complete Paintings of Georges Seurat (Illustrated)
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    Delphi Complete Paintings of Georges Seurat (Illustrated)

    By Peter Russell

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    The founder of the nineteenth century French school of Neo-Impressionism, Georges Seurat devised the technique of Pointillism, portraying the play of light with tiny brushstrokes of contrasting colours. A man of studious habits and a scientific mind, Seurat employed his original technique to create huge compositions with tiny, detached strokes of pure colour too small to be distinguished when looking at the entire work, though when viewed from a distance, shimmered with brilliance. In spite of his short life, he left behind him an incredible body of work that would have a lasting impact on the history of modern art. Delphi’s Masters of Art Series presents the world’s first digital e-Art books, allowing readers to explore the works of great artists in comprehensive detail. This volume presents Seurat’s complete paintings in beautiful detail, with concise introductions, hundreds of high quality images and the usual Delphi bonus material. (Version 1)


    * The complete paintings of Georges Seurat – over 250 images, fully indexed and arranged in chronological and alphabetical order
    * Includes reproductions of rare works
    * Features a special ‘Highlights’ section, with concise introductions to the masterpieces, giving valuable contextual information
    * Enlarged ‘Detail’ images, allowing you to explore Seurat’s celebrated works in detail, as featured in traditional art books
    * Hundreds of images in colour – highly recommended for viewing on tablets and smart phones or as a valuable reference tool on more conventional eReaders
    * Special chronological and alphabetical contents tables for the paintings
    * Easily locate the paintings you wish to view
    * Includes a wide selection of Seurat's drawings – explore the artist’s varied works


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    CONTENTS:


    The Highlights
    Head of a Girl
    Horse
    Industrial Suburb
    Bathing at Asnières
    Rue Saint-Vincent, Montmartre, in Spring
    A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte
    Le Bec du Hoc, Grandcamp
    The Bridge at Courbevoie
    The Models
    Circus Sideshow
    Port-en-Bessin
    The Eiffel Tower
    Young Woman Powdering Herself
    The Circus


    The Paintings
    The Complete Paintings
    Alphabetical List of Paintings
    Alphabetical List of Paintings


    The Drawings
    List of Drawings


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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherDelphi Classics Ltd
    Release dateDec 20, 2019
    ISBN9781913487010
    Delphi Complete Paintings of Georges Seurat (Illustrated)

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      Delphi Complete Paintings of Georges Seurat (Illustrated) - Peter Russell

      Georges Seurat

      (1859-1891)

      Contents

      The Highlights

      Head of a Girl

      Horse

      Industrial Suburb

      Bathing at Asnières

      Rue Saint-Vincent, Montmartre, in Spring

      A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte

      Le Bec du Hoc, Grandcamp

      The Bridge at Courbevoie

      The Models

      Circus Sideshow

      Port-en-Bessin

      The Eiffel Tower

      Young Woman Powdering Herself

      The Circus

      The Paintings

      The Complete Paintings

      Alphabetical List of Paintings

      Alphabetical List of Paintings

      The Drawings

      List of Drawings

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      Masters of Art - Georges Seurat

      First published in the United Kingdom in 2019 by Delphi Classics.

      © Delphi Classics, 2019.

      All rights reserved.  No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, without the prior permission in writing of the publisher, nor be otherwise circulated in any form other than that in which it is published.

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      The Highlights

      Paris — Seurat’s birthplace

      An old print of Paris in 1859, the year Seurat was born

      Seurat was born at 60 rue de Bondy (now rue René Boulanger)

      The Highlights

      In this section, a sample of Seurat’s most celebrated works is provided, with concise introductions, special ‘detail’ reproductions and additional biographical images.

      Head of a Girl

      The French post-Impressionist artist, Georges Seurat, famous for devising the painting technique Pointillism, was born on 2 December 1859 in Paris. His father, Antoine Chrysostome Seurat, hailed originally from Champagne, and was a former legal official, who had achieved wealth through speculating in property. Antoine was something of an eccentric, who spent much of his time separate from the family, collecting religious paintings. He lived alone in a small house in Le Raincy, which featured a private chapel, in which he liked to attend mass, accompanied with his gardener.  He visited his wife and children once a week at boulevard de Magenta, but was largely remote from his son’s childhood. Georges’ mother, Ernestine Faivre, was a Parisian of the lower middle class and thirteen years younger than her husband. Georges also had a brother and a sister, who were both older than him.

      Seurat first studied art at the École Municipale de Sculpture et Dessin, near his family’s home, then run by the sculptor Justin Lequien. At first Seurat was not impressed with the recent innovations of the Impressionists, dedicating this time instead to endless drawings of noses and ears from lithographed models under the supervision of Lequien.  During this time he must have learnt an extraordinary degree of patience in his work, which would have helped much later in devising his Pointillism technique. In 1878 he moved on to the École des Beaux-Arts where he was taught by Henri Lehmann, following a conventional academic training, drawing from casts of antique sculpture and copying drawings by the Old Masters. His formal artistic training came to an end in November 1879, when he left the École des Beaux-Arts for a year of military service.

      Following his time spent in Brest Military Academy, Seurat returned to Paris where he shared a studio with his close friend and fellow artist Edmond Aman-Jean (1858-1936), while also renting a small apartment at 16 rue de Chabrol. For the next two years, he worked at mastering the art of monochrome drawing, for which he demonstrated a natural aptitude. His first exhibited work, accepted by the Salon in 1883, was a Conté crayon drawing of Aman-Jean. He also enjoyed studying the works of Eugène Delacroix, making notes on the Romantic artist’s pioneering use of colour. By all accounts, Seurat was a shy and quiet young man, with a serious nature, naturally suited to sedulous study. Charles Angrand, a close friend in early days, later described him as an extremely withdrawn personality.

      In the spring of 1879, Seurat attended the Impressionist exhibition in the Avenue de l’Opéra, where he was captivated by the work of Monet, Degas and Pissarro. He felt disillusioned by the lifeless academicism of his teachers, and so with his friends Aman-Jean and Ernest Laurent, he rented a studio in the Rue de l’Arbalète and set about developing an entirely new approach to art.

      Produced in 1879, Head of a Young Girl reveals the influence of countless hours drawing lithographed models under the guidance of Lequien.  Having studied in great depth the classical statuary at the École des Beaux-Arts, drawing from plaster casts, Seurat was clearly interested in the statuesque quality of the model’s pose. The composition is likely a copy of a sketch by Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres (1780-1867), the Neoclassical master; incidentally, Lehmann was a pupil of Ingres, so Seurat would

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