Volume 38, Number 18 · November 7, 1991
The Enigma of Georges Seurat
By Jack Flam
Seurat: 1859–1891 24, 1991–January 12, 1992
an exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York September
Seurat: 1859–1891
catalog of the exhibition by Robert L. Herbert, with contributions by Françoise Cachin, by Anne Distel, by Susan Alyson Stein, by Gary Tinterow
Metropolitan Museum of Art/Abrams, 450 pp., $45.00 (paper)
Seurat
by Alain Madeleine-Perdrillat, translated by Jean-Marie Clarke
Rizzoli, 215 pp., $75.00
Seurat at Gravelines: The Last Landscapes
by Ellen Wardwell Lee
Indiana University Press, 80 pp., $19.95 (paper)
Paul Signac and Color in Neo-Impressionism, including the first English edition of 'From Eugène Delacroix to Neo-Impressionism' by Paul Signac
by Floyd Ratliff, Signac text translated by Willa Silverman
Rockefeller University Press
It is now exactly a century since Georges Seurat died of a brief but virulent illness only a few months after his thirty-first birthday. And so, following what has now become a kind of ritual among cultural institutions, the Metropolitan Museum of Art is marking the hundredth anniversary of the artist's death with a tribute to his life and work.
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