Seated Woman with a Parasol
1884-1885
Georges Seurat is famous for his tiny dots of color, but this piece shows his mastery of light and shadow using just black conté crayon on textured paper. The figure of the woman is almost entirely a silhouette, dissolving into the bright background as if she's fading into a summer haze. Seurat created this study while preparing for his massive masterpiece 'A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte,' experimenting with how to capture the blinding effect of sunlight. It's a ghostly, beautiful reminder that even the most colorful painters started with stark black and white.
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