George Seurat
Jeune fille: Étude pour Un Dimanche à la Grande Jatte
1884/85
conté crayon on paper
31,2 x 16,2 cm
George Seurat
The gateway
1882/84
conte crayon on paper
24,8 × 32,2 cm
George Seurat
Madame Seurat, the Artist’s Mother
1882/83
conté crayon on Michallet paper
30,5 x 22,9 cm
"French artist Georges Seurat (b. 1859; d. 1891), the pioneer of the Pointillist pictorial movement, took drawing to new heights that ensured him a place among the great masters of the technique. […] Something apparently so simple as a piece of paper acquires great transcendence in Seurat’s drawings, as it becomes an element that determines the work in a certain way. The artist feels the material to the point where he makes it talk. What distinguishes great masters is this knowledge of the support, which Seurat almost brings alive, allowing it to absorb exactly the right amount of Conté in each case to create lights, volumes, and contrasts.”
Curators Guggenheim/Bilbao: Lucía Agirre and Judith Benhamou
Alexandra Roozen
Two Tone series
2022
pencil, paper
160 x 120 cm
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