Saint-Tropez: The Port
Medium
color lithograph
Dimensions
image: 43.5 × 33 cm · sheet: 50.8 × 38.2 cm
Classification
Department
Prints
Museum
Cleveland Museum of Art
Credit
Gift of The Print Club of Cleveland in memory of William J. Eastman
Accession Number
1953.346
Tags
male
About this artwork
Signac adapted for the lithographic process the style he and George Seurat (1859-1891) developed in the 1880s for painting: pointillism. Brilliantly colored dots were juxtaposed to produce a full optical tonal range more luminous than can be obtained from pigments mixed on the palette. Saint-Tropez, printed in six colors (blue, blue-gray, red, pink, yellow, and green), demonstrates that lithography was a perfect vehicle for translating these artists' scientific ideas about color.