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Paul Signac
sardine fisbing
mk290 concarneau detail
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Paul Signac
ligbtbouse
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Paul Signac
saint tropez
mk290 detail
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Paul Signac
grand canal venice
mk290 1908 watercolor 7x9in musee marmottan paris bequest of miche monet
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Paul Signac
port tn bessin
mk290 oil on canvas 23x36in signed lower left P signac tai cheung holdings ltd
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Paul Signac
still life with a book and roanges
mk290 1885 oil on canvas 12x18in signed and dated P signac 83 staatliche museen zu berlin nationalgalerie
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Paul Signac
stiff northwest breeze
mk290 1885 18x25in signed and dated right p signac ray and dagmar dolby san francisco
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Paul Signac
snow boulevard de clichy pa ris
mk290 oil on canvas 18x25in signed lower left p signac the minneapolis instiute of arts bequest of putnam dana mcmillan
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Paul Signac
the jun ction at bois colombes
mk290 1886 18x25in signed and deted lower left p signac 1885 van gogh museum amsterdam
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Paul Signac
the jun ction at bois colombes opus 130
mk290 1886 13x18in signed and dated lower right p signac inscribed lower left op 130 a darzens leeds museums and galleries united kingdom
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Paul Signac
the gas tanks at clichy
mk290 1886 25x31in
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Paul Signac
riverbbank les andelys
mk290 1886 25x31in signed and dated lower righet p signac 86 musee d orsay paris acquired by dation 1996
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Paul Signac
woman reading
1887 9x5in musee d orsay paris gift of ginette signac1979
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Paul Signac
the dining room opus 152
mk290 1886-87 35x45in kroller muller museum otterlo the netherlands
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Paul Signac
sunlight quai de clichy opus
mk290 1887 18x25in
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Paul Signac
town beach collioure opus
mk290 1887 24x31in metropolitan museum of art new yotk robert lehman collection
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Paul Signac
stern of the boat opus
mk290 1888 18x25in private collection courtesy of alex reid and lefevre ltd
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Paul Signac
masts portrieux opus
mk290 1888 18x21in private collection
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Paul Signac
portrieux opus
mk290 1888 25x31in phillips family collection
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Paul Signac
portrieux opus
mk290 1888 23x36in
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1863-1935
French
Paul Signac Galleries
Paul Victor Jules Signac was born in Paris on November 11, 1863. He followed a course of training in architecture before deciding at the age of 18 to pursue a career as a painter. He sailed around the coasts of Europe, painting the landscapes he encountered. He also painted scenes of cities in France in his later years.
In 1884 he met Claude Monet and Georges Seurat. He was struck by the systematic working methods of Seurat and by his theory of colours and became Seurat's faithful supporter. Under his influence he abandoned the short brushstrokes of impressionism to experiment with scientifically juxtaposed small dots of pure colour, intended to combine and blend not on the canvas but in the viewer's eye, the defining feature of pointillism.
Many of Signac's paintings are of the French coast. He left the capital each summer, to stay in the south of France in the village of Collioure or at St. Tropez, where he bought a house and invited his friends. In March 1889, he visited Vincent van Gogh at Arles. The next year he made a short trip to Italy, seeing Genoa, Florence, and Naples.
The Port of Saint-Tropez, oil on canvas, 1901Signac loved sailing and began to travel in 1892, sailing a small boat to almost all the ports of France, to Holland, and around the Mediterranean as far as Constantinople, basing his boat at St. Tropez, which he "discovered". From his various ports of call, Signac brought back vibrant, colourful watercolors, sketched rapidly from nature. From these sketches, he painted large studio canvases that are carefully worked out in small, mosaic-like squares of color, quite different from the tiny, variegated dots previously used by Seurat.
Signac himself experimented with various media. As well as oil paintings and watercolours he made etchings, lithographs, and many pen-and-ink sketches composed of small, laborious dots. The neo-impressionists influenced the next generation: Signac inspired Henri Matisse and Andr?? Derain in particular, thus playing a decisive role in the evolution of Fauvism.
As president of the Societe des Artistes Ind??pendants from 1908 until his death, Signac encouraged younger artists (he was the first to buy a painting by Matisse) by exhibiting the controversial works of the Fauves and the Cubists.
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