Georges Seurat’s painting of cancan dancers 'Le Chahut' (1889‒90) will go on display in the UK for the first time this autumn as a star loan in the National Gallery’s first-ever exhibition devoted to the Neo-Impressionist art movement.  

Seurat’s painting will be one of several by the artist to be included in Radical Harmony: Helene Kröller-Müller’s Neo-Impressionists. As well as' Le Chahut', works by Georges Seurat coming from the Kröller-Müller Museum to the exhibition will include 'Sunday at Port-en-Bessin' (1888) and 'The Canal of Gravelines, in the Direction of the Sea' (1890) as well as two outstanding conté crayon drawings.   

Largely drawn from the outstanding collection of the German art collector Helene Kröller-Müller (1869‒1939), one of the first great women art patrons of the 20th century, the exhibition will show radical works of French, Belgian and Dutch artists, painted from 1886 to the early 20th century. It will include important pictures from the same collection by other significant Neo-Impressionists such as Théo van Rysselberghe’s 'In July - before Noon' or 'The Orchard' (1890), Jan Toorop’s 'Sea' (1899), Henry van de Velde’s 'Twilight' (about 1889) and Paul Signac’s 'The Dining Room' (1886-87), which will be paired with the artist’s other interior scene, 'A Sunday' (oil on canvas, 1888-90), an exceptional loan from a private collection.   

This exhibition is a collaboration between the National Gallery and the Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo.  

Théo van Rysselberghe, ‘The lady with the blue hat’, 1990 © Collection Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo, The Netherlands. Photographer: Rik Klein Gotink