Tickets at the moment are on sale for the primary month of The Griffin Catalyst Exhibition: Seurat and the Sea, which opens at The Courtauld Gallery from 13 February – 17 Could 2026.
The Courtauld will current the primary ever exhibition devoted to the seascapes of the French artist Georges Seurat (1859–1891). This main exhibition would be the first dedicated to Seurat within the UK in virtually 30 years, and can chart the evolution of his radical and distinctive model by means of the recurring motif of the ocean
It follows main Impressionist exhibitions at The Courtauld Gallery, resembling Van Gogh. Self-Portraits and, most just lately, the acclaimed The Griffin Catalyst Exhibition: Monet and London. Views of the Thames.
The Courtauld holds the most important assortment of works by Seurat within the UK. The artist is finest generally known as the creator of the Neo-Impressionist method, by which shapes and lightweight are rendered by juxtaposing small dots of pure color.
Because of his early demise on the age of 31, Seurat has a really small pool of works and exhibitions dedicated to him are uncommon. The Griffin Catalyst Exhibition: Seurat and the Sea will convey collectively 25 work, oil sketches and drawings made by Seurat in the course of the 5 summers he spent on the northern coast of France, between 1885 and 1890. Working in port cities alongside the English Channel, together with Honfleur, Port-en-Bessin and Gravelines, Seurat captured their seascapes, regattas and port exercise in his distinctive Neo-Impressionist method. He sought, in his phrases, ‘to scrub his eyes of the times spent within the studio [in Paris] and to translate in probably the most devoted method the brilliant readability, in all its nuances’.
These works are an vital counterpoint to his Parisian works, that are higher identified and extra broadly studied. This exhibition will due to this fact present a singular alternative to reassess an vital however usually ignored side of Seurat’s profession. It is going to embrace loans from main non-public collections and public establishments, together with the Museum of Trendy Artwork, New York; the Nationwide Gallery of Artwork, Washington, D.C.; the Barnes Basis, Philadelphia; the Baltimore Museum of Artwork; the Indianapolis Museum of Artwork; the Minneapolis Institute of Artwork, the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Artwork, Kansas Metropolis; the Nationwide Gallery of Australia, Canberra; the Musée d’Orsay, Paris; the Musée des beaux-arts, Tournai; the Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo; the Nationwide Gallery, Prague; Tate and the Nationwide Gallery, London.
The Griffin Catalyst Exhibition: Seurat and the Sea shall be accompanied by a superbly illustrated catalogue, which is able to showcase the outcomes of analysis on Seurat’s seascapes, their technical improvement and their significance in disseminating the artist’s work past the monumental canvases for which he’s finest identified.
The exhibition’s title supporter is Griffin Catalyst, the civic engagement initiative of Citadel
Founder and CEO Kenneth C. Griffin.
Tickets for 13 Feb –13 Mar 2026 at the moment are accessible to ebook.
The Griffin Catalyst Exhibition: Seurat and the Sea
13 February – 17 Could 2026
