Georges Seurat · 1890–91
The Circus
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Seurat's final, unfinished masterpiece — a bareback rider in mid-leap, the audience in tiers of cool-blue dots. Musée d'Orsay.
Up to 8 × 10 in · portrait
Size
Larger sizes are unavailable for this painting because the source scan's resolution wouldn't print at gallery quality.
Format & finish
Archival cotton canvas stretched over a wooden frame. Ready to hang as-is. No external frame.
Scale next to a 5'10" person
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The story of The Circus
The Circus is an oil on canvas painting by Georges Seurat. It was his last painting, made in a Neo-Impressionist style in 1890–91, and remained unfinished at his death in March 1891. The painting is located at the Musée d'Orsay in Paris.
Adapted from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Georges Seurat
Georges Pierre Seurat was a French post-Impressionist artist. He devised the painting techniques known as chromoluminarism and pointillism and used conté crayon for drawings on paper with a rough surface.
All Georges Seurat prints →Biography adapted from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
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