Museum Exhibition
Van Gogh and the Avant-Garde: The Modern Landscape
Art Institute of Chicago
May 14, 2023 – September 4, 2023
More than 75 paintings and drawings by five interconnected artists—Vincent van Gogh, Georges Seurat, Paul Signac, Emile Bernard, and Charles Angrand—highlight the tremendous creativity that was sparked by their time in Paris's evolving working-class suburbs.
Exhibition artworks
Representative work
Georges Seurat
Oil Sketch for "A Sunday on La Grande Jatte — 1884"
1884
Oil on panel
15.5 × 24.3 cm (6 1/8 × 9 9/16 in.); Framed: 25.4 × 35.6 cm (10 × 14 in.)
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Georges Seurat
Final Study for "Bathers at Asnières"
1883
Oil on panel
15.8 × 25.1 cm (6 1/4 × 9 7/8 in.); Framed: 54.3 × 63.9 × 6.1 cm (21 3/8 × 25 1/8 × 2 3/8 in.)
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Vincent van Gogh
Fishing in Spring, the Pont de Clichy (Asnières)
1887
Oil on canvas
50.5 × 60 cm (19 7/8 × 23 5/8 in.); Framed: 71.2 × 78.5 × 4.8 cm (28 × 30 7/8 × 1 7/8 in.)
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Vincent van Gogh
Self-Portrait
1887
Oil on artist's board, mounted on cradled panel
41 × 32.5 cm (16 1/8 × 12 13/16 in.); Framed: 61.6 × 53.4 × 8.9 cm (24 1/4 × 21 × 3 1/2 in.)
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Georges Seurat
Woman Walking with a Parasol (study for La Grande Jatte)
1884
Conté crayon on cream laid paper
31.7 × 24.1 cm (12 1/2 × 9 1/2 in.)
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Georges Seurat
Seated Woman with a Parasol (study for La Grande Jatte)
1884/85
Black Conté crayon on ivory laid paper
48 × 31.5 cm (18 15/16 × 12 7/16 in.)
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Georges Seurat
Trees (study for La Grande Jatte)
1884
Black Conté crayon, on white laid paper, laid down on cream board
62 × 47.5 cm (24 7/16 × 18 3/4 in.)
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