Golfe Juan
Artist
Paul Signac
(French, 1863–1935)
Date1896
Mediumoil on canvas
Dimensionscanvas: 65.4 × 81.3 cm (25 3/4 × 32 in.)
framed: 87.6 × 104.1 × 8.9 cm (34 1/2 × 41 × 3 1/2 in.)
framed: 87.6 × 104.1 × 8.9 cm (34 1/2 × 41 × 3 1/2 in.)
ClassificationsPaintings
Credit LineGift from the Chapin and Mary Alexander Riley Collection
Object number1964.27
Label TextTogether with Georges Seurat, Signac challenged Impressionism’s spontaneity with a more systematic approach commonly referred to as Neo-Impressionism, one of the movements within Post-Impressionism. Guided by scientific advances in the fields of optics and color theory, these artists used a pointillist technique, carefully applying discrete dots of color that blend within the viewer’s eye rather than on the painter’s palette.
Signac spent his summers in the south of France. Golfe Juan, a Mediterranean resort town near St. Tropez, where Signac bought a house and kept a sailboat, is visible on the opposite shore.
ProvenanceCollection of Comte Antoine de la Rochefoucauld (1862-1959), Paris, before 1956; Wildenstein & Co., New York, NY, by 1956; purchased by Chapin Riley (1909-2005) and Mary Alexander Riley (1908-1963), Worcester, MA, 1956; given to the present collection, 1964.On View
Not on view
