22 May 2011

Recently, in writing about the painter Leon Bonvin I mentioned a work in charcoal by another short-lived  French artist, Georges Seurat (1859-1891).  And here it is - the little dog guarding the baby carriage. 





Image: Georges Seurat - untitled, c. 1882-1884, Museum of Modern Art, NYC.

4 comments:

Rouchswalwe said...

Jane! Thank you! That's a marvel of simplicity. Charcoal is one of my favourite mediums.

Jane said...

R, you are right, it is marvelous the way the cat and the carriage have such individual presence.

DSM said...

Thanks for this, Jane; I've never seen it.

Jane said...

I had never seen it either, until rummaging through the MOMA website, and I've been to the museum quite often. Seurat had so little time, yet we are fortunate in how much he left to us.