From 13 February to 17 Might 2026, the Courtauld Gallery presents the exhibition “Seurat and the Sea”
Supply: Courtauld Gallery. Picture: Georges Seurat: Seascape at Port-en-Bessin, Normandy, 1888.
The Courtauld will current the primary ever exhibition devoted to the seascapes of the French artist Georges Seurat (1859–1891). Opening on 13 February 2026, this main exhibition would be the first dedicated to Seurat within the UK in nearly 30 years. It’s going to chart the evolution of his radical and distinctive model via the recurring motif of the ocean.
The Griffin Catalyst Exhibition: Seurat and the Sea follows main Impressionist exhibitions at The Courtauld, similar to Cézanne’s Card Gamers, Van Gogh. Self-Portraits and, most not too long ago, the acclaimed The Griffin Catalyst Exhibition: Monet and London. Views of the Thames, which was seen by a report 120,000 guests and offered out its total run, together with prolonged opening hours to satisfy demand.
The Courtauld holds the most important assortment of works by Seurat within the UK. The artist is finest often known as the creator of the Neo-Impressionist approach, wherein shapes and lightweight are rendered by juxtaposing small dots of pure color. Resulting from his early loss of life on the age of 31, Seurat has a really small pool of works and exhibitions dedicated to him are uncommon.
The Griffin Catalyst Exhibition: Seurat and the Sea will convey collectively round 23 work, oil sketches and drawings made by Seurat throughout the 5 summers he spent on the northern coast of France, between 1885 and 1890. Working in port cities alongside the English Channel, together with Honfleur, Port-en-Bessin and Gravelines, Seurat captured their seascapes, regattas and port exercise in his distinctive Neo-Impressionist approach. He sought, in his phrases, ‘to scrub his eyes of the times spent within the studio [in Paris] and to translate in essentially the most trustworthy method the brilliant readability, in all its nuances’.
