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Georges Seurat 1859-1891

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This beautiful catalog from an exhibit at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in 1992 is an excellent anthology of Seurat's work, juxtaposing finished works with sketches, and includes a large selection of sketches as a student. The size allows the works to be displayed in all their glory. If you like Seurat, buy this!

I purchased this book over Georges Seurat: The Drawings by Jodi Hauptman, Karl Buchberg, Hubert Damisch and Bridget Riley (Nov 1, 2007) because of somebody else's review and am so happy I did. This is a much more complete book - with both a large collection of drawings and paintings and field paintings and studies. Must have for any artist interested in capturing light in drawings and anybody interested in 19th century art (as we all should be!!!)

This would be the best book to cover the life and artistic output of Georges Seurat. This catalog of a major and comprehensive exhibition held in the Metropolitan Museum is written by the Seurat expert Robert Herbert. The book is packed with numerous paintings and drawings by Seurat; the latter are particularly well reproduced and are to be prefered to the more recent MOMA issue covering that subject. This weighty volume is difficult to access but is definitely worth hunting out. The Seurat completist would also need to own John Rewald's book concerning this artist. That volume has far less illustrations which are inferiorly reproduced.