Courbevoie; Factories by Moonlight
1882-83
Before Georges Seurat became the king of tiny, colorful dots, he was mastering the art of darkness. In this haunting 1882 drawing, he used dark conté crayon on textured paper to capture the eerie, industrial glow of the moon over Courbevoie. A massive, silhouetted chimney stack looms on the left, cutting through the grainy night sky like a dark monolith. It’s a moody, atmospheric snapshot of the Industrial Revolution, showing that Seurat was obsessed with light and shadow long before he invented Pointillism.
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