On this day / 11 November — Paul Signac

‘The anarchist painter is not the one who will create anarchist pictures, but the one who will fight with all his individuality against official conventions.’ – Paul Signac On this day, November 11th, 1863, Paul Signac, was born in Paris. Signac was a French Neo-Impressionist painter and is considered as one of the originators of the technique known as Pointillism or Divisionism. From a young age, Signac was attracted by the Impressionist paintings in the art gallery windows of Paris and frequented the exhibitions held by the ‘revolutionary’ painters. Signac himself said that it was Claude Monet’s paintings that led him to pursue the career of a painter. Sailing also played a major role in Signac’s paintings and inspiration. Signac loved sailing and began to travel in 1892, sailing a small boat to almost all the ports of France, to Holland and around the Mediterranean as far as Constantinople. From his various ports of call, Signac brought back vibrant colourful watercolours, sketched rapidly from nature. From these sketches, he painted large studio canvases that are carefully worked out in small mosaic like squares of colour. In celebration of Paul Signac’s birthday, we have chosen the artwork ‘Samois, le Chaland / The Barge at Samois’, 1901, oil on canvas, from the Paris Collection of the A. G. Leventis Gallery. ◦ AGLG 374 © A. G. Leventis Gallery

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