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One Hundred Great Paintings

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This week's theme: Outdoor Life
Seurat (1859-1891) - La Grande Jatte, at the Art Institute, Chicago

This picture is of the island of La Grande Jatte in the Seine on a sunny Sunday afternoon. It was a favourite haunt of bathers, anglers, soldiers on leave and cocottes. Seurat went there every morning for six months, doing all his sketches from nature and then working in his studio afternoons and evenings. It took him two years to complete the picture.

(Tomorrow: Eakins' Max Schmitt in a Single Scull)

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Director:
Bill Morton
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