Volume 48, Number 15 · October 4, 2001
Face to Face with Seurat
By John Russell
Seurat: Drawings and Paintings
by Robert L. Herbert
Yale University Press, 195 pp., $65.00
It is easier for the visitor to France to read about Seurat than to see his work. There was, in fact, something almost willed, if not actually paralytic, about the readiness with which the guardians of the French cultural tradition allowed Seurat's paintings and drawings to leave France, one by one. Françoise Cachin, then the director of the Musées de France, pointed out on the occasion of the Seurat centenary exhibition in Paris and New York in 1991 that 'almost all of the painter's work had left France between 1900 and 1930.'
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