18 juni 2024

Georges Seurat #4


Georges Seurat’s last studio in Montmartre.

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Georges Seurat had a studio at number 39 Rue André Antoine. In the picture this is the building in the middle with the triangular gable, near the bottom of the steps.
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Seurat moved in here in 1890 with his model Madeleine Knobloch. If you visit the Courtauld Institute Collection in London you will see his beautiful painting of her as she puts on her make up: Young Woman Powdering Herself. That painting would have been executed at this address.
One of his very last works The Circus completed in 1891 (in the Orsay Museum Paris) would probably have been painted here.
Seurat only lived here one year, by 1891 he was dead at the age of 31.
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