Paul Signac, 1863-1935 - Softcover

Marina Ferretti-Bocquillon; Anne Distel; John Leighton; Susan Alyson Stein

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0870999990 ISBN 13: 9780870999994

Publisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art/Yale, 2001

Synopsis

Marina Ferretti-Bocquillon, Anne Distel, John Leighton, Susan Alyson Stein

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Review:

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

From the Publisher:

This book is the catalogue of the first retrospective of Signac's work in nearly forty years, which has been held at the Réunion des Musées Nationaux/Musée d'Orsay, Paris, and the Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam, and will be at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York from October 9 to December 30, 2001.

About this edition

• Publisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art/Yale
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0870999990
• ISBN 13: 9780870999994
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 340