In the manner of Georges Seurat
French, 1859–1891
Models, Posing, 2026
Oil on canvas
200 × 300 cm
Never painted.
Commissioned for the collection, 2026.
PAB 2026.10.5
One woman, three times: from the back, in profile and from the front, each time holding her phone up to the gym mirror, a towel round her neck, a water bottle in the other hand. Seurat's *Models* is one model in three poses in his studio, with his own big Sunday painting on the wall behind her. The mirror has made the job easier. It has not made it any quicker.
The brief
Three figures at a gym mirror photographing themselves, one from the back, one in profile, one frontal, towels and water bottles, flat even light. Neo-Impressionist pointillist oil painting, the entire surface built from thousands of small separate dots of pure colour that mix in the eye, complementary pairs of orange and blue and violet and yellow, stiff frieze-like figures in profile, still formal composition, dappled light, a painted dotted border at the edge, matte chalky surface. Flat frontal reproduction of the painting, the canvas fills the frame edge to edge, even lighting, no frame, no wall, no text.
Written to the house rules. The painter's name does not appear.
Take it home
The painting on this room's wall, at its own proportions, nothing written on it.
