A Sunday on La Grande Jatte — 1884

1884–86, border added 1888–89

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Artist: Georges Seurat (French, 1859–1891)
Date: 1884–86, border added 1888–89
Medium: Oil on canvas
Dimensions: 207.5 × 308.1 cm (81 3/4 × 121 1/4 in.)
Origin: France
Collection: Art Institute of Chicago
Credit: Helen Birch Bartlett Memorial Collection

About A Sunday on La Grande Jatte — 1884

Georges Seurat's A Sunday on La Grande Jatte—1884 depicts leisure on an island in the Seine. Small touches of separate colors build people, trees, grass and water into a carefully ordered composition. The title includes 1884, but Seurat developed the large painting over an extended period. This is the finished Art Institute of Chicago painting, rather than one of its many preparatory studies.

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