Georges Seurat Works Online
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Original works by Georges Seurat available for purchase at art galleries worldwide
Paintings in Museums and Public Art Galleries Worldwide:
 Art Institute of Chicago
Art Institute of Chicago
Mini-site for the 2004 exhibition Seurat and the Making of "La Grande Jatte"
Art Institute of Chicago Art Explorer - Images and Text Resources
Detailed information about the artist and his works
Dallas Museum of Art, Texas
Georges Seurat at the Detroit Institute of Arts, Michigan
View of Le Crotoy from Upstream, 1889
Fitzwilliam Museum at the University of Cambridge, UK
Rue St. Vincent, 1884
Guggenheim Berlin
Meadow, ca.1881
Guggenheim Museum, New York City
Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg, Russia
View of Fort Samson, 1885
J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles
3 works online by Seurat
Louvre Museum Graphic Art Database, Paris (in French) 
Georges Seurat at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City 
The Colt (Le Poulain), conté crayon drawing, 1882-83
Georges Seurat at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City
Musée d'Orsay, Paris
Commentary on Model, Back View
Musée d'Orsay, Paris
Commentary on The Circus
Musée d'Orsay Collection Database, Paris
19 works by Georges Seurat online
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas 
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Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Drawings collection online
Museum of Modern Art, New York City
8 works online when last checked
Museum of Modern Art, New York City
Info about a 2007-08 exhibition: "Georges Seurat - The Drawings"
National Galleries of Scotland, Edinburgh
3 works online
National Gallery, London, UK
Georges Seurat at the National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.
4 works by Georges Seurat
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
Study for Le Bec du Hoc, Grandcamp
Norton Simon Museum, Pasadena, California
Réunion des Musées Nationaux, France (in French)
Le Cirque, 1891
Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut
L'Echo (study for Une Baignade, Asnières)
Ackland Art Museum at the University of North Carolina
Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio
Courtauld Institute of Art, London, UK
13 works by or related to the artist
Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, Washington, D.C.
Head of a Young Girl
E.G. Bührle Collection, Zurich
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Study for "Invitation to the Sideshow", 1887
Study for "Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte", 1884-85
Harvard University Art Museums, Massachusetts
Hyde Collection Art Museum, Glens Falls, New York
Banks of the Seine near Courbevoie, 1883
Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indiana
Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo, Netherlands
Kunstmuseum Basel, Switzerland
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Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minnesota
Port-en-Bessin, 1888
Museum of Modern Art, New York City - Provenance Research Project
4 works by Seurat
Philadelphia Museum of Art
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2 drawings by Georges Seurat online
Pierpont Morgan Library, New York City
Approach to the Bridge at Courbevoie, 1886
Pierpont Morgan Library, New York City
Nurse with a Child's Carriage
Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium Catalogue (in French)
La Seine à la Grande-Jatte, 1888
Saint Louis Art Museum, Missouri
Port-en-Bessin: The Outer Harbor (Low Tide), 1888
Smith College Museum of Art, Massachusetts
Tate Gallery, London, UK
The Barnes Foundation, Pennsylvania
Models, 1886-88
The Essence of Line: French Drawings from Ingres to Degas
Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam
Woman Singing in a Café Chantant, 1887
Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam
The Seine at Courbevoie, 1884
Wallraf-Richartz-Museum, Cologne, Germany (mostly in German)
National Art Databases and Museum Inventories:
Art Fund for UK Museums
Joconde Database of French Museum Collections (in French)
UK National Inventory of Continental European Paintings (NICE)
Art Market:
(e.g. records of past sales at auction; sites providing examples of the artist's signature)
Artarchiv Sample Artist Signatures
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Christie's Past Sale Archive NEW!
(database goes as far back as 1991; images go about as far back as 1999)
Sotheby's Sold Lot Archive NEW!
(database goes as far back as 1998; images where permitted by copyright go about as far back as 2001)
Pictures from Image Archives:
Georges Seurat in the Artchive
Artcyclopedia
Masterscan feature: The Seine at La Grande Jatte
Georges Seurat at CGFA
Google Art Project NEW!
Evening, Honfleur (MoMA, The Museum of Modern Art, New York)
Google Art Project NEW!
Grandcamp, Evening (MoMA, The Museum of Modern Art, New York)
Rasiel's Wallpapers
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Georges Seurat at The Athenaeum 
111 works online by Seurat
Georges Seurat in the WebMuseum
Wikimedia Commons Image Database
Bildindex der Kunst und Architektur (in German)
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Boston College Fine Arts Department
California State University WorldImages Database
Ciudad de la Pintura (in Spanish)
El Poder de la Palabra (The Power of the Word) (in Spanish)
Humanities Web
Mondo Mostre, Milan (in Italian)
Scroll down for a work from the 2005 exhibition Masterpieces from the Guggenheim
New York Public Library Digital Gallery
Olga's Gallery
PBase Photo Sharing
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The Circus, 1890-91
State Hermitage Museum Unofficial Site
The Halter Collection
USC Annenberg School for Communication
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Miscellaneous Sites:
The BBC
2 works online
The Modernist Journals Project
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Articles and Reference Sites:
Encyclopedia Britannica complete article on Georges Seurat 
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Grove Dictionary of Art Online (excerpt)
Union List of Artist Names (Getty Museum)
Reference sheet with basic information about the artist and pointers to other references.
Wikipedia, the "Open Content" Encyclopedia
Biographical info
Art + Auction Magazine
Aman-Jean, conte crayon drawing, 1882-83
Artcyclopedia
Models, 1887-88
Oxford Dictionary of Art (eNotes)
The Guardian Newspaper, UK
Essay on Young Woman Powdering Herself, ca.1890
The New Yorker
"Georges Seurat at the Museum of Modern Art", 2007 review by Peter Schjeldahl
Time Magazine
"Against the Cult of the Moment", 1991 article by Robert Hughes
"Look Inside" and "Search Inside" Books at Amazon
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Georges Seurat
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Seurat and the Avant-garde
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Seurat: Drawings and Paintings
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Masters of Art: Seurat
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