Georges Seurat

French | 1859 - 1891

Georges Seurat was a French 19th Century painter who was born in 1859. Their work is currently being shown at multiple venues like MoMA, The Museum of Modern Art in New York. Numerous key galleries and museums such as Getty Center have featured Georges Seurat's work in the past.Georges Seurat's work has been offered at auction multiple times, with realized prices ranging from 1 USD to 149,240,000 USD, depending on the size and medium of the artwork. Since 1998 the record price for this artist at auction is 149,240,000 USD for Les Poseuses, Ensemble (Petite version), sold at Christie's New York in 2022. In the past 12 months, their prints & graphic art have averaged 70 USD.Georges Seurat has been featured in articles for ARTnews, Museums + Heritage Advisor and FAD Magazine. The most recent article is How the Courtaulds Built London’s Greatest Impressionist Collection written for Daily Art Magazine in February 2025. The artist died in 1891.

Artist's alternative names: Georges Pierre Seurat

At Auction

Notable Lots

ÉTUDE POUR UNE BAIGNADE, ASNIÈRES - Georges Seurat

ÉTUDE POUR UNE BAIGNADE, ASNIÈRES ,1883

By Georges Seurat

+29%

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Paysage avec cheval ,1882

By Georges Seurat

+71%

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La Promenade ,1882

By Georges Seurat

+66%

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Post-Auction Lots for Sale

Nude male torso ,1948

By Georges Seurat

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Recent Auction Results

A SUNDAY AFTERNOON ON THE ISLAND OF LA GRANDE JATTE - Georges Seurat

A SUNDAY AFTERNOON ON THE ISLAND OF LA GRANDE JATTE ,1987

By Georges Seurat

Ro Gallery

PORT EN BESSIN

By Georges Seurat

Ro Gallery

Woman with a muff ,1948

By Georges Seurat

-34%

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Current Exhibitions

Lillie P. Bliss and the Birth of the Modern

MoMA, The Museum of Modern Art

Midtown | New York | USA

Nov 17,2024 - Mar 29,2025

Legacy: Gifts From The Mayers And The Friedman Collections

Boca Raton Museum of Art

Boca Raton | Florida | USA

Nov 07,2024 - Oct 26,2025

Hyde House and the Permanent Collection

The Hyde Collection

Glens Falls | New York | USA

May 01,2022 - Jun 01,2050

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Articles

How the Courtaulds Built London’s Greatest Impressionist Collection

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Coverage

“ ..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 career... ”
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MoMA, The Museum of Modern Art

“ ..Seurat died young, at the age of just 31... ”
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Kroller-Muller Museum

“ ..It is the first time that so many of the painted and drawn works of Seurat are being exhibited in the Netherlands... ”
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Kroller-Muller Museum

“ ..Featuring motifs such as strollers by the Seine, acrobats under the big top, and gardeners at work, they attest to Seurat's wide range of subjects and compositional excellence and explain how this contemporary... ”
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Kunsthaus Zürich

“ ..Seurat thus smoothed the way from the nineteenth to the twentieth century for the Impressionists and became an important source of inspiration for later artists.... ”
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Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt