Born the son of a bailiff, Seurat left school at sixteen to study with Lehmann at the Ecole Municipale de Dessin in 1875.
Seurat, the recognized leader of Neo-Impressionism, perfected the technique of pointilism, which Pissarro adopted in 1885.

Sunday On the Isle of La Grande Jatte
Georges Pierre Seurat, 1859-1891, French
Art Institute of Chicago
