Lithograph on vélin du Canson & Montgolfier Vidalon-Les-Annonay paper. Paper size: 12.5 x 9.75 inches. Excellent condition. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Notes: From the album, Seurat, 1948. Published by George Besson, Paris; printed by Les Éditions Braun & Cie, Mulhouse-Dornach, Paris, Lyon. Excerpted from the album (translated from French), This album, the third of the "Plastique" collection published under the direction of George Besson, was printed on velin Vidalon paper by Braun & Cie, Mulhouse-Dornach, Paris, Lyon. GEORGES SEURAT (1859-1891) was a French post-Impressionist artist. He devised the painting techniques known as chromoluminarism and pointillism and used conté crayon for drawings on paper with a rough surface. Seurat's artistic personality combined qualities that are usually thought of as opposed and incompatible: on the one hand, his extreme and delicate sensibility, on the other, a passion for logical abstraction and an almost mathematical precision of mind. His large-scale work A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte (1884–1886) altered the direction of modern art by initiating Neo-Impressionism, and is one of the icons of late 19th-century painting.