What makes Georges Seurat's masterpiece 'A Sunday on La Grande
Jatte -1884' so revolutionary? What does the picture mean? And why
did it become so famous? Join Alastair and James as they explore
the mysteries of one of the most beguiling paintings in the history
of art. If you want to see the artworks discussed in this
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Artworks in this episode: Georges Seurat, A Sunday on La Grand
Jatte - 1884, 1884-86, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago Georges
Seurat, Bathers at Asnières 1884, The National Gallery, London
Georges Seurat, The Diner, 1883-84, Private Collection Georges
Seurat, Embroidery; The Artist's Mother, 1882-83, The Metropolitan
Museum of Art, New York Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, La Grande
Odalisque, 1814, Musée du Louvre, Paris Eugène Delacroix, Jacob
Wrestling with the Angel, 1854-61, Saint-Sulpice, Paris
Pierre-Cécile Puvis de Chavannes, The Beheading of Saint John the
Baptist, c.1869, The National Gallery, London Georges Seurat,
Madame Seurat, the Artist's Mother, 1882-83, J. Paul Getty Museum,
Los Angeles Georges Seurat, House at Dusk (La Cité), 1881-82, The
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Georges Seurat, Aman-Jean
(Portrait of Edmond François Aman-Jean), 1882-83, The Metropolitan
Museum of Art, New York Georges Seurat, Seated Boy with Straw Hat,
study for Bathers at Asnières, 1883-84, Yale University Art
Gallery, New Haven Georges Seurat, Bathers (Study for "Bathers at
Asnières"), 1883-84, National Gallery of Art, Washington D. C.
Georges Seurat, Horse and Boats (Study for "Bathers at Asnières"),
1883-84, National Gallery of Art, Washington D. C. Georges Seurat,
Boy from Behind, c.1893, Private Collection Arnold Böcklin, Isle of
the Dead, 1880, Kunstmuseum, Basel Georges Seurat, The Couple:
Study for La Grande Jatte, 1884, The British Museum, London Georges
Seurat, La Grande Jatte, 1884, Private Collection Georges Seurat,
Monkey, 1884, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Georges
Seurat, The Channel at Gravelines, Evening, 1890, Museum of Modern
Art, New York Recommended Reading: Alastair Sooke, Seurat: Bathers
at Asnieres, 2025 Robert Herbert, Seurat: 1859-1891, 1991 Karen
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