Word: honfleur
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...most complete group of Seurat's drawings -- and drawing, for him, was absolutely fundamental -- ever assembled, together with the oil sketches and finished studies for the big works (more than 30 for La Grande Jatte alone); the landscapes of the Ile de France; the exquisite seascapes of Gravelines and Honfleur; and the theater scenes, like the brooding and mysterious frieze of musicians and chattering spectators at the Cirque Corvi known as the Parade de Cirque, 1887-88. In the studies, particularly, one sees Seurat's major ambition working itself out: his conservative but in fact deeply radical desire to reconstruct...