In the manner of Georges Seurat
French, 1859–1891
A Sunday on the Island of Free Wi-Fi, 2026
Oil on canvas
200 × 300 cm
Never painted.
Commissioned for the collection, 2026.
PAB 2026.10.1
Moving, 8-second loop ·
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A Sunday by the river, and everyone holds still. Two riders stand on e-scooters, a man in a cap flies a drone over the water, and a woman in a red dress checks her phone with one hand on the pram. Sailboats wait. Seurat spent two years on *A Sunday on La Grande Jatte*, dot by dot. It would take him longer now: everyone keeps turning round to take a picture.
The brief
A riverside park on a Sunday afternoon with stiff figures in profile on the grass, several on e-scooters, one flying a small drone, a woman with a pram and a phone, dappled 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.
