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A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte by Georges Seurat, 1884
Art Institute of Chicago · wikidata.org
Public domain
Took him something like two years, from what I can find — a pile of small studies done out at the park, then the big one built up indoors. The speckled border round the edge is his as well; he added it later so the thing wouldn't have to sit inside somebody else's gold frame.
Erisava: Nobody in this park looks like they're having any fun. What's it all for?
Reclining Figure: Arch Leg by Henry Moore, 1969
Promenade de l'Observatoire · wikidata.org
You'll come across this sat out on the grass on the Promenade de l'Observatoire, close enough to lean on. From what I've read he wanted them outdoors on purpose — weather, sky, people climbing about — and pushed for that whenever he had a say in where one ended up.
Erisava: Is there a person in here, or am I meant to take their word for it?
Music in the Tuileries by Édouard Manet, 1862
National Gallery · wikidata.org
Public domain
The crowd is apparently packed with people he actually knew — family, writers, musicians, himself tucked in at one edge — put together from sketches made at open-air concerts. Critics at the time complained it looked slapped on rather than finished.
Erisava: Half these faces are barely there. I can't tell if that's the point.