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Georges Seurat

At the Gaîté Rochechouart (Café-concert), ca. 1887-1888

Description

Maker

  • Georges Seurat, 1859-1891, French

Title

At the Gaîté Rochechouart (Café-concert)

Year

ca. 1887-1888

Medium

Conté crayon with gouache on laid paper

Materials/Techniques

Supports

  • laid paper

Dimensions

30.5 x 23.5 cm (12 x 9 5/16 inches)

Type

  • Works on Paper,
  • Drawings and Watercolors

Credit

Gift of Mrs. Murray S. Danforth

Object Number

42.210

Projects & Publications

Publications

Neo-Impressionism and the Dream of Realities

Painting, Poetry, Music

From Dürer to Van Gogh

Gifts from Eliza Greene Radeke and Helen Metcalf Danforth
Read Online

Edgar Degas

Six Friends At Dieppe

Selection V

French Watercolors and Drawings, ca. 1800-1910

Exchange Exhibition, Exhibition Exchange

From the Collection of Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University; From the Collection of The Museum of Art, Rhode

Exhibition History

Exhibition History

From Dürer to Van Gogh

June 5 - October 26, 2008

The subject of the indoor café holds an important place in 19th-century French art, and starting in 1887, Georges Seurat executed several drawings of these Parisian nightspots. Like his contemporary Edgar Degas, Seurat was concerned with the effects of artificial light and its power to distort form and evoke atmosphere. By applying the side of his conté crayon to a heavily textured paper, Seurat achieved a vibrating surface pattern of pits and ridges reminiscent of his Pointillist paintings. His composition is wholly tonal, the whites created with just gouache or the white of the page.

Edgar Degas

September 16, 2005 - January 15, 2006

Selection V

April 29 - May 25, 1975

Exchange Exhibition of Paintings from Rose Museum, Brandeis University

February 16 - April 2, 1967

Master Drawing from the Museum and a Private Collection

June 19 - October 27, 1946

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