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Georges Seurat

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Profession
Painter
Died
Mar 29, 1891
Zodiac
Sagittarius
Born in
ParisFrance
About
Post-Impressionist painter and draftsman whose iconic work, "A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte," exemplified his pointillist style. His first major painting was titled "Bathers at Asnières." It portrayed a young man relaxing in a working-class suburb of France. 
Family
He was born into a wealthy family to Antoine Chrysostome Seurat and Ernestine Faivre. He had a son named Pierre in 1890 with then-girlfriend Madeleine Knobloch.

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