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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
, the couple moved to a studio at 39 passage de l'Élysée-des-Beaux-Arts (now rue André Antoine). There she gave birth to their son, who was named Pierre-Georges, 16 February 1890.
Seurat spent the summer of 1890 on the coast at Gravelines, where he painted four canvases including "The Channel of Gravelines, Petit Fort Philippe", as well as eight oil panels, and made a few drawings.
Biography Death.
Seurat died in Paris in his parents' home