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A Sunday on La Grande Jatte
Georges Seurat
A monumental pointillist canvas that the Art Institute has declared permanently unable to travel.
- Artist
- Georges Seurat
- Date
- 1884–1886
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 207.5 × 308.1 cm
- Location
- Art Institute of Chicago
History
What the record shows
Seurat built the image from millions of separate marks and painted a border of dots directly onto the canvas edge.
Some of his pigments have darkened irreversibly. The museum ruled in the 1950s that the painting will not leave Chicago again.
Provenance
Chain of ownership
- 01Seurat estate, 1891
- 02Lucie Cousturier, Paris
- 03Frederic Clay Bartlett, Chicago, 1924
- 04Art Institute of Chicago, Helen Birch Bartlett Memorial Collection, 1926
