Georges Seurat was a painter and founder of the 19th-century school of Neo-Impressionism whose technique for portraying the play of light using tiny brushstrokes of contrasting colors became known as Pointillism. Using this technique, he created huge com
Completed in 1884,Batherswas rejected by the jury of the annualSalonthat year. Seurat consequently participated in the founding of the Société des Artistes Indépendants, an association that was intended to hold annual exhibitions “with neither jury nor prizes” that would accept the work of any...