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Models, also known as The Three Models and Les Poseuses, is a work by Georges Seurat, painted between 1886 and 1888 and held by the Barnes Foundation in Philadelphia. Models was exhibited at the fourth Salon des Indépendants in spring of 1888.
The piece, the third of Seurat's six major works, is a response to critics who deemed Seurat's technique inferior for being cold and unable to represent life. As a response, the artist offered a nude depiction of the same model in three different poses. In the left background is part of Seurat's 1884–1886 painting A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte.
Models is considered distinctive because of its pointillist technique and the political implications of its depiction of the nude female body.
Georges-Pierre Seurat was the third child of Ernestine Faivre and Antoine-Chrysostome Seurat. He was born in Paris on 2 December 1859 into a bourgeois family. He entered in the École des Beaux-Arts in 1878. He then studied under Henri Lehman. He, along with artists such as Paul Signac, Albert Dubois-Pilllet, and Odilon Redon were responsible for the Salon des Indépendants, which they established as an alternative to the state-sponsored Salon exhibitions.
Seurat is best-known for A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte, 1884, which was displayed in 1886 at the final Impressionist exhibition and subsequently exhibited at the Salon des Indépendants. The painting is known to be the start of Neo-Impressionist movement. Seurat is also praised for his technique of pointillism which in an almost scientific manner breaks the paint surface into dots of color that blend together when seen from afar.
Models is a notable example of Pointillism, which refers to painting through a series of colored dots that together make up an image, although Seurat's preferred to call it Chromo-luminarism.
In an article written by Norma Broude in the Art Bulletin, she compares Pointillism to photo printing in the 1880s France. Though not the same, there are large similarities in the results given the preoccupation with color theory and the meticulously planning of paint application in pointillism. In his works, Seurat adopted the approach to replicate the luminosity and tones found in nature. Seurat's faith in color science, use of bright colors, and mechanical brush strokes are characteristic of Neo-Impressionism.
Seurat painted two versions of Les Poseuses. The smaller of the two is more in accord with the divisionism technique that Seurat had invented, and favoured by Seurat specialists. This version is on the cover of the catalogue for the 1991 Seurat exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Though the painting once belonged to the merchant Heinz Berggruen, it went on to become part of the Paul Allen collection and then his estate. In 1947, at the sale of the collection of Félix Fénéon, an early advocate and promoter of Seurat, France acquired studies for the painting that now reside in the Musée d'Orsay. In November 2022, Christies auction house sold the painting as part of the Paul G. Allen collection auction for $149.2m (£131m), including fees.
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Models (painting)
Models, also known as The Three Models and Les Poseuses, is a work by Georges Seurat, painted between 1886 and 1888 and held by the Barnes Foundation in Philadelphia. Models was exhibited at the fourth Salon des Indépendants in spring of 1888.
The piece, the third of Seurat's six major works, is a response to critics who deemed Seurat's technique inferior for being cold and unable to represent life. As a response, the artist offered a nude depiction of the same model in three different poses. In the left background is part of Seurat's 1884–1886 painting A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte.
Models is considered distinctive because of its pointillist technique and the political implications of its depiction of the nude female body.
Georges-Pierre Seurat was the third child of Ernestine Faivre and Antoine-Chrysostome Seurat. He was born in Paris on 2 December 1859 into a bourgeois family. He entered in the École des Beaux-Arts in 1878. He then studied under Henri Lehman. He, along with artists such as Paul Signac, Albert Dubois-Pilllet, and Odilon Redon were responsible for the Salon des Indépendants, which they established as an alternative to the state-sponsored Salon exhibitions.
Seurat is best-known for A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte, 1884, which was displayed in 1886 at the final Impressionist exhibition and subsequently exhibited at the Salon des Indépendants. The painting is known to be the start of Neo-Impressionist movement. Seurat is also praised for his technique of pointillism which in an almost scientific manner breaks the paint surface into dots of color that blend together when seen from afar.
Models is a notable example of Pointillism, which refers to painting through a series of colored dots that together make up an image, although Seurat's preferred to call it Chromo-luminarism.
In an article written by Norma Broude in the Art Bulletin, she compares Pointillism to photo printing in the 1880s France. Though not the same, there are large similarities in the results given the preoccupation with color theory and the meticulously planning of paint application in pointillism. In his works, Seurat adopted the approach to replicate the luminosity and tones found in nature. Seurat's faith in color science, use of bright colors, and mechanical brush strokes are characteristic of Neo-Impressionism.
Seurat painted two versions of Les Poseuses. The smaller of the two is more in accord with the divisionism technique that Seurat had invented, and favoured by Seurat specialists. This version is on the cover of the catalogue for the 1991 Seurat exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Though the painting once belonged to the merchant Heinz Berggruen, it went on to become part of the Paul Allen collection and then his estate. In 1947, at the sale of the collection of Félix Fénéon, an early advocate and promoter of Seurat, France acquired studies for the painting that now reside in the Musée d'Orsay. In November 2022, Christies auction house sold the painting as part of the Paul G. Allen collection auction for $149.2m (£131m), including fees.