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Georges Pierre Seurat

Also Known As: "Georges-Pierre", "Pierre"
Birthdate:
Birthplace: Paris, Paris, Île-de-France, France
Death: March 29, 1891 (31)
Gravelines, France
Place of Burial: Paris, Paris, Île-de-France, France
Immediate Family:

Son of Antoine Chrysostome Seurat and Ernestine Seurat
Partner of Madeleine Knobloch
Father of Pierre-Georges Seurat and Stillborn Seurat
Brother of Émile Augustin Seurat; Marie Berthe Appert and François Gabriel Seurat

Occupation: Artiste peintre
Managed by: Benoit ROUSSEL
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About Georges Seurat

Georges-Pierre Seurat ( 2 December 1859 – 29 March 1891) was a French post-Impressionist artist. He is best known for devising the painting techniques known as chromoluminarism as well as pointillism. While less famous than his paintings, his conté crayon drawings have also garnered a great deal of critical appreciation. Seurat's artistic personality combined qualities that are usually supposed to be opposed and incompatible: on the one hand, his extreme and delicate sensibility, on the other, a passion for logical abstraction and an almost mathematical precision of mind. His large-scale work A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte (1884–1886) altered the direction of modern art by initiating Neo-impressionism, and is one of the icons of late 19th-century painting.

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Georges Seurat's Timeline

1859
December 2, 1859
Paris, Paris, Île-de-France, France
1890
February 16, 1890
1891
March 29, 1891
Age 31
Gravelines, France
March 31, 1891
Age 31
Cimetière du Père-Lachaise, Paris, Paris, Île-de-France, France
April 1891