The Channel of Gravelines, Petit Fort Philippe [SEP] collection
The Channel of Gravelines, Petit Fort Philippe
The Channel of Gravelines, Petit Fort Philippe is a pointillist painting by French artist Georges Seurat, located in the Indianapolis Museum of Art in Indianapolis, Indiana. Painted in 1890, the year before his death, it depicts a harbor in the small French port of Gravelines. Described as "wistful and poetic," it is one of the treasures of the IMA.
Description.
As one of Seurat's final paintings, "The Channel of Gravelines, Petit Fort Philippe
which comprises a number of significant Old Masters pieces. Part of the Neo-Impressionist collection, "The Channel of Gravelines, Petit Fort Philippe" by Georges Seurat was one of the first works to be donated by Caroline Marmon Fesler in the 1940s. Fesler would go on to donate a number of important works, including her bequest in 1961 of notable 20th-century modernism pieces that included Pablo Picasso, Chagall, and Matisse. Pieces in the American collection represent American Impressionism and Modernism, including works by Georgia O'Keeffe and George