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Paul Signac
place clichy
mk290 1888 10x14in metropolitan museum of art new york robert lehman collection
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Paul Signac
cap lombard cassis opus
mk290 1889 26x31in
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Paul Signac
the jetty cassis opus
mk290 1889 18x25in metropolitan museum of art new york bequest of joan whitney payson 1975
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Paul Signac
cap canaille cassis opus
mk290 1889 25x32in
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Paul Signac
rivrtbank herblay opus
mk290 1889 23x36in
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Paul Signac
sunset herblay
mk290 1889 22x35in glasgow museums art gallery and museum kelvingrove
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Paul Signac
fog herblay
mk290 1889 13x21in
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Paul Signac
saint cast opus
mk290 1890 26x32in
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Paul Signac
beacons at saint briac opus
mk290 1890 25x31in
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Paul Signac
portrait of felix feneon opus
mk290 1890 29x36in
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Paul Signac
evening calm concarneau opus
mk290 1891 25x32 in
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Paul Signac
concarneau
mk290 1891 25x32in
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Paul Signac
concarneau
mk290 1891 25x31in museum of modern art new york mrs john hay whitney bequest 1998
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Paul Signac
woman arranging her hair opus
mk290 1892 23x27in
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Paul Signac
town at sunset saint tropez
mk290 1892 25x31in
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Paul Signac
port at sunset
mk290 1892 25x32in
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Paul Signac
houses in the port saint tropez opus
mk290 1892 18x21in ambassador john l loeb jr
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Paul Signac
women at the well opus
mk290 1892 76x51in
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Paul Signac
two cypresses mistral
mk290 1893 31x25in
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Paul Signac
plane trees place des lices
mk290 1893 25x32in
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| Paul Signac
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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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