Georges Seurat’s pointillist masterpiece represents a landmark moment in the history of painting. A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte remains Seurat’s largest and most celebrated painting, completed in 1884 and depicting people of varying social milieu as they partake in a post prandial stroll in a park west of Paris, on the island of La Grande Jatte. The subject was modern, but at the same time timeless – the idea of leisure, free and available to all, a universal human pleasure. Seurat made the painting using the pointillism, a technique that emerged from a scientific hypothesis whereby points of pure colour are positioned closely to create an illusion of blurring into a single form. The dots were created with small, horizontal brushstrokes and give the painting its unique, scintillating texture and warmth. The painting capture the quintessence of life in the summertime – and a is a reminder to slow down, and smell the proverbial roses at this time of year. Since 1926, the painting has been held in the collection of the The Art Institute of Chicago.

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