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Georges Pierre Seurat was born on 2 December 1859 in Paris. During his schooldays, Seurat was introduced to painting by an uncle on his mother's side, the textile dealer Paul Haumonté-Faivre, himself an amateur painter. In 1875 he started to attend a drawing class taught by the famous sculptor Justin Lequien at a night school in the city. In 1879 Seurat left the École des Beaux-Arts, where he had been a pupil at for a year, and devoted all his free time to drawing and reading up on theories of color and vision. In his sketchbook there are numerous sketches of figure, studies of the sea, beach and ships. In 1880 after returning from military service, he rented a small room, not far from his parents' apartment, where he painted his most important works up till 1886. Scientific theories on color and vision continued to deeply interest him After Seurat's first...

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