Georges Seurat

Georges Seurat, born in Paris in 1859, was an artist who uniquely blended a delicate sensibility with a passion for logical abstraction. After conventional academic training at the École des Beaux-Arts, he completed military service and then devoted himself to mastering monochrome drawing, exhibiting a Conté crayon drawing of his friend Aman-Jean at the Salon in 1883. He also meticulously studied the color theories of Eugène Delacroix, which would profoundly influence his la…