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Dec 21, 2021 · As a child, Seurat became interested in painting and was inspired by impromptu tuition from his uncle, Paul Haumonté, a fabric merchant and hobbyist artist. Seurat the Artist’s Early Training. Seurat’s academic education started in 1875 when he enrolled at the nearby government art college under the tutelage of artist Justin Lequien.
The paintings included five of Port-en-Bessin and two of the Seine, pictures of austere tranquillity that reworked Impressionist motifs in a new manner. Seurat's largest exhibits were two figure paintings, Young Woman Powdering Herself and Le Chahut. Both are insistently modern and also have more than a touch of caricature and equivocal humor ...
Two preliminary drawings for this canvas are reproduced in Cesar de Hauke's book on Seurat's works. The first is a detail of the bridge, and the second is more like the painting, except that there is only one human figure. The work shown here was formerly owned by Arsene Alexandre, one of Seurat's staunchest defenders.
Identification and Creation Object Number 1943.918 People Georges Pierre Seurat, French (Paris 1859 - 1891 Paris)
In an article, Arsene Alexandre refers to the enormous amount of work that went into this painting: "Bathing at Asnières made it clear that Seurat was the one younger artist capable of putting his back into it - one of the few capable of organizing a vast composition utilizing hitherto unknown techniques."
A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte by Georges Seurat. To comment on this vast canvas where Seurat for the first time succeeded in applying, with scientific rigor, the theory of optical mixture by the division of tone - a technique that Rubens and Delacroix had employed intuitively - one cannot do better than to quote the following text by Jules Christophe.
The critic and friend of Seurat, Félix Fénéon waited many years before commenting, ‘Though I did not commit myself in writing, I then [in 1884] completely realised the importance of this painting.‘ [37] [38] For many years, Bathers at Asnières remained in the possession of Seurat’s family, and in 1900 the work was purchased by Felix ...
