Saint-Tropez
Medium
color lithograph
Dimensions
25.8 × 39.1 cm
Classification
Department
Prints
Museum
Cleveland Museum of Art
Credit
Alma and Robert D. Milne Fund
Accession Number
1998.185
Tags
male
About this artwork
This is a brilliant impression of Luce's most important color lithograph, which exemplifies the ideas of his close friend and fellow artist Paul Signac (1863–1935): that optical effects of color are achieved by the juxtaposition of touches of pure pigment. In his paintings, Luce used brushstrokes rather than the pointillist dots of color favored by painters such as Georges Seurat (1859–1891). When using lithography Luce placed dashes of different colors side by side so that they would interact, ...