Where can you see Georges Seurat in London?

At the National Gallery: Bathers at Asnières. At the Courtauld Gallery: Young Woman Powdering Herself. Museums move and lend their works, so check before a special journey.

What is Georges Seurat's most famous work in London?

Bathers at Asnières, of 1884, at the National Gallery. Workmen and boys rest on the bank of the Seine on a hot afternoon, in profile, as still as figures on a frieze, with factory chimneys smoking in the haze behind them.

When and where was Georges Seurat born?

On 2 December 1859, at Paris. Georges Seurat died on 29 March 1891, at Paris, aged about 32.

What is Georges Seurat known for?

Painted Bathers at Asnières at twenty-four. The inventor of painting in dots, which he called divisionism. Died at thirty-one. Georges Seurat was a French painter, of Neo-Impressionism.

Painter, 1859 to 1891

Georges Seurat

Seurat died at thirty-one and finished only a handful of large pictures. The first of them, two metres high and three wide, hangs in London.

Born: 1859, Paris
Died: 1891, Paris
Movement: Neo-Impressionism
In London: 2 works in 2 museums

Where to see Georges Seurat in London

Each work with the museum it hangs in. Museums move and lend their works, so check before a special journey.

The National Gallery1 work

Bathers at Asnières
1884
Workmen and boys rest on the bank of the Seine on a hot afternoon, in profile, as still as figures on a frieze, with factory chimneys smoking in the haze behind them.

The Courtauld Gallery1 work

Young Woman Powdering Herself
about 1888 to 1890
His companion, Madeleine Knobloch, at a small dressing table, built entirely of dots. It is the only portrait he painted of her, and almost nobody knew she existed until he died.

The life of Georges Seurat

He trained at the École des Beaux-Arts and read the scientists of colour, who taught that two colours set side by side would mix in the eye. Out of that he made a method of painting in small separate dots.

Bathers at Asnières came before the dots. It was refused by the official Salon of 1884, and he showed it with other rejected painters instead. He went back to it later and added dotted touches here and there.

What to know

Painted Bathers at Asnières at twenty-four
The inventor of painting in dots, which he called divisionism
Died at thirty-one

Born: 2 December 1859, Paris
Died: 29 March 1891, Paris

Georges Seurat: common questions

Where can you see Georges Seurat in London?: At the National Gallery: Bathers at Asnières. At the Courtauld Gallery: Young Woman Powdering Herself. Museums move and lend their works, so check before a special journey.
What is Georges Seurat's most famous work in London?: Bathers at Asnières, of 1884, at the National Gallery. Workmen and boys rest on the bank of the Seine on a hot afternoon, in profile, as still as figures on a frieze, with factory chimneys smoking in the haze behind them.
When and where was Georges Seurat born?: On 2 December 1859, at Paris. Georges Seurat died on 29 March 1891, at Paris, aged about 32.
What is Georges Seurat known for?: Painted Bathers at Asnières at twenty-four. The inventor of painting in dots, which he called divisionism. Died at thirty-one. Georges Seurat was a French painter, of Neo-Impressionism.