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Georges Seurat

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

Description

Maker

Title

At the Gaîté Rochechouart (Café-concert)

Year

ca. 1887-1888

Medium

Conté crayon with gouache on laid paper

Materials/Techniques

Supports

Dimensions

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

Type

Credit

Gift of Mrs. Murray S. Danforth

Object Number

42.210

Projects & Publications

Publications

Selection V

French Watercolors and Drawings, ca. 1800-1910

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.

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