<p>Once described as "the most beautiful painter's drawings in existence," Georges Seurat's mysterious and luminous works on paper played a crucial role in his short, vibrant career. This comprehensive publication surveys the artist's entire oeuvre, from his academic training and the emergence of his unique methods to the studies made for his monumental canvases. Accompanying the first exhibition in almost 25 years to focus exclusively on Seurat's drawings, this volume presents approximately 130 works, primarily the artist's incomparable conté drawings along with a small selection of oil sketches and paintings. In an effort to bridge the seemingly opposite goals of description and evocation, Seurat masses dark and light tones to abstract figures, exploits medium and paper to amplify radiating light, and engages with the Parisian metropolis, revealing urban types, the industrial suburbs and nineteenth-century entertainment. Though Seurat is perhaps best known as the inventor of Pointillism, this volume demonstrates his tremendous achievement as a draftsman and his fundamental importance to the art of the twentieth century. It includes carefully selected details of the work, as well as reproductions from pages of Seurat's sketchbooks, which have never before been published. Texts by Jodi Hauptman, Karl Buchberg, Hubert Damisch, Bridget Riley, Richard Shiff and Richard Thomson address specific aspects of Seurat's techniques, materials, and subject matter. They are rounded out by a chronology, a selected bibliography and a detailed checklist.</p>

Georges Seurat: The Drawings

Richard Shiff

Jodi Hauptman

Karl Buchberg

Hubert Damisch

BRIDGET RILEY

Richard Thomson

Reference

The Museum of Modern Art, New York

<p>The catalogue for an exhibition organized by the Museum of Modern Art, New York, and the High Museum of Art, Atlanta, October 15, 2011 - April 29, 2012. The exhibition presented paintings, sculptures, drawings, multiples, photographs, and films by a selection of the most important artists of the twentieth century: Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, Constantin Brancusi, Piet Mondrian, Marcel Duchamp, Giorgio de Chirico, Fernard Léger, Joan Miró, Louise Bourgeois, Alexander Calder, Jackson Pollack, Romare Bearden, Jasper Johns, and Andy Warhol. 133 objects are illustrated in color.</p>

Picasso to Warhol: Fourteen Modern Masters

Arts & Photography

History & Criticism

MoMA and High Museum of Modern Art

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