Seurat - The Eiffel Tower

Georges Seurat (1859-1891) is the inventor of the so-called divisionist technique, commonly called pointillism. Considered with Cézanne, Gauguin and Van Gogh, as one of the four great painters of post-impressionism. His work is limited (six large compositions, thirty seascapes, about 160 small paintings on panels, and about 800 drawings) but he strongly influenced the avant-gardes of the 20th century, Fauvism, Cubism, Futurism. He participated in the first Salon des Indépendants (1884) with the young painters Paul Signac, Henri-Edmond Cross, Maximilien Luce, Camille Pissarro. He was strongly supported in his pictorial research by the critic Félix Fénéon, who named this new school neo-impressionism for the first time.

The Eiffel Tower, 1889
San Francisco Museum of Fine Arts