Paul Signac masterpieces

Le port au soleil couchant (Saint-Tropez) - 1892
Le port au soleil couchant (Saint-Tropez) - 1892

A work of art is above all an adventure of the mind - Eugene Ionesco

Paul Signac's pointillism

After the COVID-19 pandemic and lockdown, in 2021, I made a list of art exhibitions that might interest me.  So, I discovered Paul Signac, Peder Severin Krøyer, Katsushika Hokusai, James Tisso, Van Dyck, Vhils and Vincenzo Gemito...

In 2021, from 19th May to 19th July, Jacquemart-André Museum in Paris organised a beautiful exhibition about Paul Signac (1863-1935), known for his luminous neo-impressionist landscapes and the principal theorist of divisionism, along with Georges Seurat (1859-1891).
This special exhibition presented 25 paintings by Paul Signac, together with 20 paintings by Seurat, Pissarro, Cross and more.

Paul Signac was a French painter, best known for developing the technique called pointillism, a form of painting in which, an artist creates a larger image from small, distinct and colorful dots.  According to Seurat and Signac, these would be blended by the viewer's eye to create a more striking image than any made after mixing colours conventionally on a palette.
He was deeply influenced by George Seurat and the famed light of the French Riviera.  He met Georges Seurat and Claude Monet in 1884.

After 1886, he regularly exhibited at the Salon des Artistes, often marine paintings and decorative panels.
Signac loved sailing and began to travel in 1892, sailed around the coats of Europe and painted the landscapes he encountered. The Mediterranean coast is a major theme across Signac's paintings, though. 
In his later years, he also painted scenes of bustling cities of France: Paris, Viviers and other French cities.

He wrote several important works on the theory of art, among them, a book entitled D'Eugène Delacroix au néo-impressionisme in 1899 and a book about Jongkind and his vision of watercolour in 1927.

Favourite masterpieces

Capo di Noli - 1898
Cassis, Cap Canaille - 1889
Cassis, Cap Lombard - 1889
Castellane - 1092
Comblat-le-Château - 1886
Comblat-le-Château, la Vallée - 1887
Golfe Juan - 1896
Le pin de Bertaud (Saint-Tropez) - 1909
Le pin de Bonaventure - 1893
Le Pont de Lézardieux - 1925
Le Port au soleil couchant (Saint-Tropez) - 1892
Le Sentier des douanes - 1905
Les Andelys, la berge - 1886
Les Andelys, les laveuses - 1886-87
Place des Lices (Saint-Tropez) - 1893
Port de Saint-Cast - 1890 
Portrieux, La Comtesse - 1888
Soirée calme, Concarneau, Opus 220 (Allegro Maestoso) - 1891
Saint-Tropez, Fontaine des Lices - 1895
Antibes, le nuage rose - 1916
Antibes, le nuage rose (1916), Les Andelys, la berge (1886)
Antibes, le nuage rose (1916)
Les Andelys, la berge (1886)*

* a village near Giverny, became a part of Paul Signac's first series of works painted



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