Notre Dame
Paul Signac
1910
Medium
Watercolor, with graphite, on white laid paper, laid down on white wove paper
Dimensions
26.5 × 38.9 cm (10 7/16 × 15 3/8 in.)
Classification
watercolor
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
66033
About the Artist
Paul Signac · 1863–1935
Paul Signac (1863–1935) was a French Neo-Impressionist painter and theorist who became the leading practitioner and champion of Pointillism after the death of Georges Seurat. Born in Paris, he was initially inspired by the Impressionists, particularly Monet, before meeting Seurat in 1884 and becoming his most devoted follower and intellectual partner in developing the systematic color theory they ...