St. Tropez: The Port (Saint-Tropez: Le port)
Paul Signac
1897/1898
Medium
6-color lithograph on wove paper
Dimensions
image: 43.5 x 33 cm (17 1/8 x 13 in.) sheet: 52.2 x 40.5 cm (20 9/16 x 15 15/16 in.)
Classification
Department
CG-E
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Rosenwald Collection
Accession Number
1950.16.233
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 ...