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While Georges Seurat is the best-known pointillist, he wasn't the only one. Signac: 1863-1935 reintroduces a tireless advocate of neo-impressionism, a painter whose suburban imagery and leisured lifestyle belied his left-wing political views. Lively essays by scholars and curators portray different facets of Paul Signac's career. Virtually self-taught, he found the catalyst for his mature style in the small-scale brushwork of the slightly older Seurat, but replaced his serene, formal quality with overtly decorative patterning. As a yachtsman, Signac was drawn to marine subjects such as boats gliding on sparkling water at different times of day. After moving from Paris to Saint-Tropez in 1892, he took up watercolor, ideal for painting sunsets. Attempts at translating his political convictions into art (culminating with the monumental figure of a worker wielding a pickax) met with failure. But Signac's brilliance as a colorist is indisputable, infusing each of the 223 plates in this handsome book. --Cathy Curtis ... Read more

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This rare, out-of-print book on Signac, published on the occassion of Marlborough Fine Art's (London) 40th Anniversary, explores the career of this great Post-Impressionist through his works on paper, especially his watercolors.Bosman's begins through examining the artist's biographic and art historic backgrounds, then follows the course of his career through 91 completely annotated reproductions.Also includes chronology and bibliography of Signac. ... Read more

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A leader in the Neo-Impressionist movement, the French painter Paul Signac (1863-1935) is best known for the intense color effects in his oil landscapes and marine canvases. However, it is in his largely unknown graphic works on paper-the precise black-and-white sketches and fluid watercolors that filled his sketchbooks, and that are published here for the first time-that his evolution as an artist emerges. This catalogue raisonn-designed to accompany the first exhibition of 133 of Signac's watercolors and drawings-is the only book in print on this well-loved artist.

Presenting Signac's graphic oeuvre in its entirety, the stunning volume serves as a visual diary, tracing his life, his travels, and his artistic explorations, capturing his passion for boats and water, and providing a new understanding of this important artist. 157 illustrations, 140 in full color, 11 x 93_4"

MARINA FERRETTI BOCQUILLON has organized many international exhibitions on Impressionism and Post-Impressionism. She is the author of several essays and previous catalogues on Signac, as well as many articles on 19th-century art.

CHARLES CACHIN, a physician, contributes insights gleaned both as the artist's son-in-law and from his lifelong interest in Signac's work. TOWNSEND WOLFE is director and chief curator of the Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock.

EXHIBITION SCHEDULE Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock Feb. 19-Apr. 9, 1999 ... Read more

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Famous worldwide for his pointillist paintings, Paul Signac (1863-1935) is less well known for his watercolors; its in 1892, when resting in the small Mediterranean village of Saint Tropez, that the artist discovered the immense possibilites of this specific technique which was to become his favorite means of expression. Whether travel notes and writings hastily put together or more precise studies preceding larger scale works, Signac's watercolors embody the artist's amazing grip on colors and the effects of light, from dusk to dawn, on the sea, the sky and nature. Signac's hedonistic, revolutionary and powerful use of color as well as his enthusiastic and musical touch aiming at expressing "sensation" have influenced many artists of his generation, Matisse in particular, during the first days of the Fauves.

From Signac's first works illustrative of his knowledge of Japan to his large series dedicated to the harbors of France comissioned at the end of his life, this rich and complete monograph relates the progress of an artist fond of freedom. His numerous watercolors, so well defined by their poetic balance and harmony, definitely belong to a genre of its own. ... Read more

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This reference provides biographical, historical, and critical information on Neo-Impressionist painting and its most significant painters. Neo-Impressionism, also called Divisionism and Pointillism, was one of the most innovative and startling late 19th-century French avant-garde styles. Over 2,000 books, articles, manuscripts, and audiovisual materials as well as chronologies, biographical sketches, and exhibition lists are cited. Also provided are both primary and secondary bibliographies for each artist. Secondary bibliographies capture details about each artist's life and career, relationships with other artists, work in various media, iconography, critical reception and interpretation, archival sources and more. ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from New Criterion, published by Foundation for Cultural Review on December 1, 2001. The length of the article is 2884 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Developing in reverse: Signac at the Metropolitan.
Author: Kermit S. Champa
Publication: New Criterion (Magazine/Journal)
Date: December 1, 2001
Publisher: Foundation for Cultural Review
Volume: 20Issue: 4Page: 39(5)

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This digital document is an article from New Statesman (1996), published by New Statesman, Ltd. on July 30, 2001. The length of the article is 19201 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Spot on.(Paul Signac art exhibit)(Brief Article)
Author: Tom Rosenthal
Publication: New Statesman (1996) (Magazine/Journal)
Date: July 30, 2001
Publisher: New Statesman, Ltd.
Volume: 130Issue: 4548Page: 29

Article Type: Brief Article

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