A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte

1884-86

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Art Institute of Chicago, US

Paul Cézanne

Claude Monet

Camille Pissarro

Georges Seurat

Do you know that:

  • The artist was a founder of the art movement Neo-impressionism, which is based on a newly developed painting technique called Pointilism.
  • The artist, during his short life (he died at age 31), produced 7 large paintings. One of them, and the largest, is La Grande Jatte.
  • The La Grande Jatte caused a sensation in the 8th and last Impressionist exhibition in 1884.