Paul Signac: Plane Trees, Place Des Lices, Saint-Tropez – 1893 Carnegie Museum, Pittsburgh In late March 1892 Signac, accompanied by his partner Berthe Roblès set sail from western Brittany in his eleven metre yacht, Olympia, bound for the south. At […]
Paul Signac: Sardine Fishing, Concarneau (Opus 221) Adagio – 1891 Museum of Modern Art, New York Paul Signac spent much of May 1891 at the Breton port of Roscoff where his new 11 metre yacht was being built. In August […]
Paul Signac: Hillside, Les Andelys – 1886 Art Institute of Chicago Shortly after completing his first Neo-Impressionist paintings of suburban subjects on the outskirts of Paris, Signac decided to base himself during June and July 1886 in the village of […]
Seurat’s Drawings Seurat had already acquired precocious skill in drawing by 1877-8 – his copies of work by Raphael, Poussin and Holbein are notable for their remarkable exactitude. Later, progressing to his mature style, he worked with conté crayon and […]
Charles Angrand: The Seine at Dawn – 1889 Geneva, Musée du Petit Palais Angrand’s preference was for rural subject matter inspired by time spent away from Paris in his native Normandy – a passion shared with Camille Pissarro, who had […]
Charles Angrand Charles Angrand 1854–1926 Born in Normandy he trained at the Acadamie de Peinture et Dessin in Rouen. His early work was in the Impressionist style. In 1882 he took up a post as a schoolteacher in Paris where […]
Georges Seurat: Le Chahut – 1890 Otterlo, Netherlands, Kröller-Müller Museum This painting was inspired by visits to a cabaret, La Divan Japonais and might be considered as complementary to Parade du Cirque of 1888, illustrating Seurat’s interest in places of […]
Georges Seurat: Young Woman Powdering Herself – 1889-90 London, Courtauld Institute Galleries First Exhibited at the Salon des Independants 1890 along with Le Chahut, Young Woman Powdering Herself was almost ignored by the critics who were much more interested in […]
Henri Edmond Cross: Madame Hector France – 1891 Paris, Musée d’Orsay This portrait of his future wife was Cross’s first foray into painting in the Neo-Impressionist style. He had been a founding member of the Société des Artists Indépendants and […]
Paul Signac: Cap Lombard, Cassis – 1889 Gemeentemuseum, Den Haag In late March 1889 Signac left Paris for the south of France, stopping at Arles to visit van Gogh in hospital, and continuing to Cassis near Marseilles. From Cassis Signac […]