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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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Paul Signac Women at the Well oil painting artist


Paul Signac Women at the Well oil painting artist

Women at the Well
Painting ID::  3824
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1892 Musee d'Orsay,Paris

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Paul Signac The Papal Palace, Avignon oil painting artist


Paul Signac The Papal Palace, Avignon oil painting artist

The Papal Palace, Avignon
Painting ID::  3825
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1900 Musee d'Orsay, Paris

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Paul Signac Red Buoy oil painting artist


Paul Signac Red Buoy oil painting artist

Red Buoy
Painting ID::  3826
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1895 Musee d'Orsay,Paris

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Paul Signac Portrait of M.Felix Feneon in 1890 oil painting artist


Paul Signac Portrait of M.Felix Feneon in 1890 oil painting artist

Portrait of M.Felix Feneon in 1890
Painting ID::  3827
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1890

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Paul Signac The Dining Room oil painting artist


Paul Signac The Dining Room oil painting artist

The Dining Room
Painting ID::  3828
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1887

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