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GEORGES SEURAT’S La Rade de Grandcamp, 1885, is a key work of the early Neo-Impressionist movement. It is one of a group of six paintings completed that year in which the artist first expressed his ideas on light, colour and optics in painting.

It depicts a regatta in the small fishing commune of Grandchamp on the Normanday coast. The Rockefellers acquired it from the Beatty collection in 1955. David described it as their ‘introduction to the pointillist style’.