Seurat'A lively and most readable account of Seurat's life and artistic development... Mr. Russell contributes some important original insights.' -- The Burlington Magazine |
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... - Lautrec as we 30 Au Travail de la Terre , c . 1883 , is one of the first of the drawings in which Seurat took over where Courbet , in his Stone - Breakers of 1850 , left off track across from the burlesqued Prodigal Son on the left.
... - Lautrec as we 30 Au Travail de la Terre , c . 1883 , is one of the first of the drawings in which Seurat took over where Courbet , in his Stone - Breakers of 1850 , left off track across from the burlesqued Prodigal Son on the left.
Page 115
... Seurat took from nature , what he worked up or perfected for himself in the studio , and what he considered taking from nature but finally left out . In this last category come a number of motifs which were dear to him in other contexts ...
... Seurat took from nature , what he worked up or perfected for himself in the studio , and what he considered taking from nature but finally left out . In this last category come a number of motifs which were dear to him in other contexts ...
Page 240
... Seurat took over from Chéret not only the composition and the stance and dress of the male figure , but also the rather primitive signals with which Chéret indicated the disposi- tion and state of mind of his characters . Soon ...
... Seurat took over from Chéret not only the composition and the stance and dress of the male figure , but also the rather primitive signals with which Chéret indicated the disposi- tion and state of mind of his characters . Soon ...
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1883 Unsigned CdH artist Asnières Assis Baignade Bec du Hoc Benedict Nicolson Black-lead Blanc Casseur de Pierres César de Hauke Chahut Charles Henry Chenal de Gravelines Chéret Cheval clown Collection Mme colour composition Conté crayon Conté crayon drawing contrast Costa courtesy César dated Degas Delacroix divisionist Ecole des Beaux-Arts Félix Fénéon figures final painting final picture foreground Formerly forms friends frieze-like Gauguin Georges Seurat Gogh golden section Grandcamp Gravelines Gustave Kahn Herbert Honfleur idea Impressionist inches Ingres Jatte landscapes later Le Raincy light Louvre Maisons Millet modern motif Museum nature never Oil on board oil on canvas oil on panel oil-panels oil-sketch once painters Paris Photo Parthenon frieze Paysan Personnages Pissarro poetic Port-en-Bessin Poseuses Private collection Photo Puvis de Chavannes Raincy Rewald Robert scene seen Seurat knew Seurat took Seurat's early sketches Soir studies style subject-matter technique York Photo