A Sunday Evening on La Grande Jatte
From the Whatifs Catalogue, the encyclopedia of paintings that never were. Lot of the day on Oct 2.
Created with AI, after Georges Seurat, public domain.
A Sunday Evening on La Grande Jatte is an imagined painting attributed, within the Whatifs fiction, to Georges Seurat (1886). It belongs to the Whatifs series of works the great masters never painted.
History and rediscovery
Seurat wanted to paint the same island as his famous Sunday afternoon, but at nightfall, as the strollers head home. Dead at 31, he left the canvas to his mother; it was found in 2024 rolled up in the false bottom of a travel trunk.
Sale
Within the fiction, the painting sold for $109,000,000 (2025). Tap the board above to replay the imagined bidding. The auction pictured below never took place.
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See also
- The Wave, the Morning After, Katsushika Hokusai
- Las Meninas, Seen from the Mirror, Diego Velázquez
- The Hunters in August, Pieter Bruegel the Elder
Notes
- Image generated with AI from a prompt written by Whatifs. No real painting, signature or auction house is reproduced.
- Story written for Whatifs. Any resemblance to real discoveries is coincidental.
