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Seurat, Georges - Models (Les Poseuses), 1886-88
Identifier
028462
Type of Spiritual Experience
Background
a friend of Seurat; as quoted in Seurat in Perspective, ed. Norma Broude, Englewood Cliffs, n. J., Prentice-Hall, 1978, p. 31
Not only did he [Seurat] never begin his paintings without knowing where he was going, but his concern went even beyond their success as individual works. They had no great meaning for him if they did not prove some rule, some truth of art, or some conquest of the unknown.
A description of the experience
Models (Les Poseuses), 1886-88, Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia