Woman with a Monkey (study for "A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte")  1884

This small panel is a study for Seurat's "Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte," his monumental painting--roughly 6 x 10 feet in size--now in the Art Institute of Chicago. Seurat made extensive preliminary drawings and oil studies for many of his larger paintings, a practice he had learned while studying at the traditional Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris. "Sunda...