Saint-Tropez:  The Port

Description

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.

Provenance

(Ferdinand Roten Galleries, Baltimore, MD) (?-1953); The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (August 12, 1953)

Saint-Tropez: The Port

Paul Signac

1897–98

Accession Number

1953.346

Medium

color lithograph

Dimensions

Image: 43.5 x 33 cm (17 1/8 x 13 in.); Sheet: 50.8 x 38.2 cm (20 x 15 1/16 in.)

Classification

Print

Museum

The Cleveland Museum of Art

Cleveland, United States

Credit Line

Gift of The Print Club of Cleveland in memory of William J. Eastman