"In his later drawings and paintings of cafe-concerts and circuses, Seurat plunged into the world of big-city entertainment, adopting and mocking the forms of commercialized pleasure through his puppet-like figures."

The Circus. 1890-91. Oil on canvas. Musée d'Orsay, Paris, France.

Invitation to the Sideshow (La Parade de Cirque). 1887-89. Oil on canvas. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.

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