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Product Identifiers
PublisherYale University Press
ISBN-100300088604
ISBN-139780300088601
eBay Product ID (ePID)1922971
Product Key Features
Book TitleSignac, 1863-1935
Number of Pages352 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year2001
TopicHistory / Modern (Late 19th Century to 1945), Collections, Catalogs, Exhibitions / General, European
IllustratorYes
GenreArt
AuthorPaul Signac, Marina Bocquillon-Ferretti
Book SeriesMetropolitan Museum of Art Ser.
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height3 in
Item Weight73.6 Oz
Item Length12 in
Item Width9 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN2001-030720
SynopsisThis book, the catalogue of the first retrospective of the work of the French Neoimpressionist artist Paul Signac to be held in nearly forty years, accompanies the 2001 exhibition organised by the Reunion des Musees Nationaux/Musee d'Orsay, Paris, the Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam, and The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. This long overdue tribute to Signac's power of expression and artistic influence features some two hundred paintings, drawings, watercolours, and prints from public and private collections worldwide. Fully illustrated in colour and discussed in individual entries, these works offer an unprecedented overview of Signac's fifty-year career. Signac's artistic development began with the luminous plein air paintings he made in the early 1880s which reveal the lessons he absorbed from Monet, Guillaumin, and other leading Impressionists. From 1884 until 1891 Signac's close association with Georges Seurat encouraged his explorations of colour harmony, contrasts, and Neoimpressionist technique. In the scintillating works of his maturity the rigours of Pointillism gave way to richly patterned, decorative colour surfaces. In a series of essays the exhibition's curators disc