Sunday Afternoon is a famous Georges Seurat painting, you can find many more available to buy here as handmade oil painting reproductions. Any size is available too, so just contact us for a quote if you need Sunday Afternoon in a different size.
La Grande Jatte is an island carefully chosen by Seurat as the scene for this work. The French artist would spend a lot of time here progressing his ideas before embarking on the work. The island itself is in the Seine in Paris between La Defense and the suburb of Neuilly, enjoying the attractive the Pont-de-Levallois too. It was an inspired choice and since the painting the area has become ever better known and visited by tourists and art fans alike. This has been helped by the local council and business community coming together to make the best of the area and ensure that it retains the qualities that made Seurat choose it for this great painting in the first place.
Sunday Afternoon took an astonishing two years for Georges Seurat to complete after he made many different sketches and study pieces in preparation for the work, in order to capture the characters and the park scene as accurately as possible with great attention to the light and proportions as Seurat could manage.
Seurat produced works such as Bathers at Asnières, Sunny Afternoon, The Models, Gray weather, Grande Jatte and The Circus. Seurat's A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte, Seurat's most famous painting, helped to change the direction of modern art by initiating the Neo-impressionist art movement, and it has gone on to become one of the icons of 19th century painting.
Georges Seurat is well known for his pointilist style of art, as shown most famous in Bathers at Asnières and A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte, to give it it's full title. These works were also produced in huge sizes, making a visit to see them absolutely worth while. Sunday Afternoon itself can currently found in the Art Institute of Chicago and the original's size is an impressive 207.6 cm × 308 cm (81.7 in × 121.25 in).
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