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For collectors searching fine art oil painting, Model from the Back is a dependable choice. Painted in layered oils on canvas after George Seurat, this post-impressionist work reads equally well as classic canvas wall art and as a thoughtful housewarming gift.
1886
Oil on wood
Musée d'Orsay, France.
During the winter of 1886-1887, Georges Seurat started work on a large composition The Models. The painting is now in the Barnes Foundation, in Merion in the United States. It shows three models posing nude in the artist's studio. On the wall the artist has reproduced An Afternoon at La Grande Jatte, the manifesto of the new style of which Seurat became the leader and which the critic Felix Fénéon called Neo-Impressionism.
Seurat made a large number of preparatory drawings and sketches for The Models, including the three studies in the Musee d'Orsay: Model, Back View, Model, Front View and Model, Side View.
In Model, Back View, the painter has shown his model nude, from the back, sitting on a white sheet. She brings to mind a famous painting which created a stir when it entered the Louvre in 1879: The Valpincon Bather by Jean-Auguste Dominique Ingres. Like Ingres, whom he greatly admired, Seurat highlights of the top of the woman's back and the nape of her neck. He uses the technique which he had himself initiated, dividing the brushstrokes into tiny dots of juxtaposed pure colour.
Every hand painted oil painting in this fine art series is finished on artist-grade canvas and checked against the original before it leaves the studio.
We use a 100% hand-painted process: stretched artist-grade canvas, layered oil pigment, and a final protective varnish. There are no inkjet prints or mechanical reproductions in this collection — just a painted fine art artwork made to order.
Build a hallway gallery wall around this fine art oil painting, or let it stand alone as a single statement. The hand painted canvas finish keeps the fine art composition looking intentional in both classic and contemporary rooms.
| Size | Price |
|---|---|
| 20 X 24 in | $87.98 |
| 24 X 36 in | $134.48 |
| 30 X 40 in | $185.98 |
| 36 X 48 in | $238.48 |
| 48 X 72 in | $481.48 |
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