Yvonne Canu was a 20th-century French Post-Impressionist who became a devotee of Pointillism more than a half-century after its originator’s death. So entranced by her first up-close experience with Georges Seurat’s work, she found her purpose as an artist as a student of his revolutionary style. Canu’s pointillist creations are distinctly modern, rendered with painstakingly precise dots of pure color that brilliantly blend together to form a cohesive work of art. Although her paintings ...