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Paul Signac
Rotterdam
mk115
1906
Watercolor
25.4x40.6cm
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Paul Signac
Rotterdam-s tug
mk115
22.5x35cm
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Paul Signac
Rotterdam fog
mk115
1906
Oil on canvas
73x92cm
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Paul Signac
Abstract
mk115
1906
Watercolor
17x24.6cm
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Paul Signac
Trestle
mk115
About 1905
Watercolor
16x21.5cm
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Paul Signac
Morning
mk115
1909
Oil on canvas
73x92cm
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Paul Signac
Study of red sunset
mk115
1918-1919
Oil on canvas
18.5x24cm
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Paul Signac
Study of rainstorm
mk115
1918-1919
Oil on canvas
18.5x24cm
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Paul Signac
Study of cloudy sky
mk115
1918-1919
Oil on canvas
18.5x24cm
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Paul Signac
Impression
mk115
1923
Oil on canvas
73.7x92.7cm
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Paul Signac
Impression
mk115
1925
Oil on canvas
73x92cm
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Paul Signac
Impression
mk115
1928
Oil on canvas
77x96cm
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Paul Signac
The coastal path
mk115
1894
19.2x29.7cm
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Paul Signac
Rainstorm
mk115
1895
16x21.6cm
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Paul Signac
Impression
mk115
1894
21x27cm
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Paul Signac
Study of city sunset
mk115
1896
15.3x19cm
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Paul Signac
Impression
mk115
1929
26x43.2cm
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Paul Signac
Pine
mk115
43.5x28cm
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Paul Signac
Chapel
mk115
About 1895
21x28.5cm
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Paul Signac
Impression
mk115
17.6x25.2cm
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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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