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Paul Signac
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mk290 1893 32x26in
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Paul Signac
in the time of harmony
mk290 1893-95 117x156in
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Paul Signac
sketch for
mk290 1893 23x31in
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Paul Signac
man reading
mk290 1894 6x9in
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Paul Signac
woman
mk290 1894 6x9in
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Paul Signac
boules player
mk290 1894 9x6in
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Paul Signac
oleanders
mk290 1894 7x10in
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Paul Signac
irises
mk290 1894 10x13in
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Paul Signac
castellane
mk290 1902 35x45in
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Paul Signac
sisteron
mk290 1902 35x46in
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Paul Signac
green sail
mk290 1904 25x31in
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Paul Signac
basin of san marco
mk290 1905 51x64in
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Paul Signac
grand canal
mk290 1905 28x36in
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Paul Signac
marseilles
mk290 1906 35x45in metropolitan museum of art new york gift of robert lehman 1955
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Paul Signac
stea mboats
mk290 1906 28x36in
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Paul Signac
evening avignon
mk290 1909 28x36in
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Paul Signac
pink cloud
mk290 1916 28x35in
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Paul Signac
morning
mk290 1918 7x9in
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Paul Signac
red sunset
mk290 1918 7x9in
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Paul Signac
yellow sunset
mk290 1918 7x9in
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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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