Models (painting)
Models, also known as The Three Models and Les Poseuses, is a painting by Georges Seurat, painted between 1886 and 1888 and held by the Barnes Foundation in Philadelphia. Models was exhibited at the fourth Salon des Indépendants in spring of 1888.[1]
Models | |
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The Three Models | |
Artist | Georges Seurat |
Year | 1886 |
Medium | oil paint, canvas |
Dimensions | 200 cm (79 in) × 249.9 cm (98.4 in) |
Accession No. | BF811 |
This painting, the third of Seurat's six major works, is a response to critics who criticized Seurat's technique for being cold and unable to represent life.[2] Thus, the artist offers a nude, the same model, in three different poses. In the left background is part of Seurat's 1884 to 1886 painting A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte.
There is a second version of this work, smaller in size, more in accord with the divisionism technique that Seurat had invented, and favoured by Seurat specialists. This version is on the cover of the catalogue for the 1991 Seurat exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.[3] The painting once belonged to the merchant Heinz Berggruen and is now part of the collection of the Paul Allen estate.[4][5] In 1947, at the sale of the collection of Félix Fénéon, an early advocate and promoter of Seurat, France acquired studies for the painting that now reside in the Musée d'Orsay.[6][7][8]
The English art critic Waldermar Januszczak believes this painting breaks the fourth wall, offering a glimpse into the poser who are the original source of the women depicted in A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grand Jatte. He further juxtaposes this to Peter Paul Rubens' The Judgement of Paris by showing the reality behind a beautiful setting.
Gallery
- Poseuse de dos
(study) - Poseuse debout, de face (study)
- Study after "The Models", 1888
- Poseuse de face
(study) - Poseuse de profil
(study)
References
- Rewald 1943, p. 79.
- Peter Russell (20 December 2019). Delphi Complete Paintings of Georges Seurat (Illustrated). Delphi Classics. pp. 118–. ISBN 978-1-913487-01-0.
- Herbert & Cachin 1991, p. cover, iv.
- Koldehoff, Stefan (2011-11-15). "Geld spielt hier keine Rolle". DIE WELT (in German). Retrieved 2018-11-01.
- Allen, Paul G. (2012-10-25). "Objects of My Affection". WSJ. Retrieved 2018-11-01.
- "Poseuse de dos". Musée d'Orsay (in French). 2009-02-16. Retrieved 2018-11-04.
- "Poseuse de face". Musée d'Orsay (in French). 2009-02-16. Retrieved 2018-11-04.
- "Poseuse de profil". Musée d'Orsay (in French). 2009-02-16. Retrieved 2018-11-04.
Bibliography
- Distel, Anne (1992) [1991]. Seurat (in French). Paris: Ed. du Chêne. ISBN 9782851087119. OCLC 463717128, 935582389.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
- Dorra, Henri; Rewald, John (1959). Seurat : L'oeuvre peint, biographie et catalogue critique (in French). Les Beaux-Arts. OCLC 873288696.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
- Hauke, César M. de; Seurat, Georges (1962). Seurat et son oeuvre; [catalogue] (in French). Gründ. OCLC 1266200.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
- Herbert, Robert L.; Cachin, Françoise (1991). Georges Seurat, 1859-1891. New York, NY: Metropolitan Museum of Art : Distributed by Abrams. ISBN 9780870996184. OCLC 23870062.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
- Herbert, Robert (2001). Seurat : drawings and paintings. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press. ISBN 9780300071313. OCLC 45002103.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
- Kostka, Alexandre (2000). "Two ladies vanishing : die "Poseuses" von Georges Seurat in der Sammlung Harry Graf Kessler ; Kunsttransfer als Teilrezeption". In Fleckner, Uwe; Schieder, Martin; Zimmermann, Michael F (eds.). Jenseits der Grenzen. französische und deutsche Kunst vom Ancien Régime bis zur Gegenwart : Thomas W. Gaehtgens zum 60. Geburtstag 1 1 (in German). Köln: DuMont. ISBN 9783770153411. OCLC 886754027.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
- Madeleine-Perdrillat, Alain (1990). Seurat. Rizzoli. ISBN 9780847812868. OCLC 886215932.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
- Nochlin, Linda (March 1994). "Body politics : Seurat's "Poseuses" (PDF). Art in America. Art Media Holdings (3): 71–79. ISSN 0004-3214. OCLC 959051968.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
- Rewald, John (1943). "Georges Seurat". Translated by Abel, Lionel. New York: Wittenborn and Co. OCLC 561921719. Retrieved 2018-10-23.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
- Rich, Daniel Catton (1958), Seurat - paintings and drawings, Art Institute of Chicago, OCLC 313002001,
Art Institute of Chicago, January 16 - March 7, 1958 ; the Museum of Modern Art, New York, March 24 - May 11, 1958
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External links
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Models. |
- "Georges Seurat: Models (Poseuses)". Barnes Collection Online — Georges Seurat: Models (Poseuses). Retrieved 2018-11-01.
- Butcher, David (2019-11-06). "The Art Mysteries with Waldemar Januszczak: Seurat's Les Poseuses". Radio Times. Retrieved 2020-03-24.