All the oil paintings of Paul Signac

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ID	Image	Painting(From A to Z)	Details
33977		Two Milliners,Rue du Caire	mk87 c.1885/86 Oil on canvas 111.8x89cm Zurich,Stiftung Sammlung E.G.Buhrle
48752		Unknown work	mk191 Oil on canvas
48769		Unknown work	mk191 Oil on canvas
36972		Venice	mk115 1905 Oil on canvas 130x163cm
45000		Venise-Le Nuage Rose	mk183 Signed and dated 1909 Oil on canvas 73x92cm
36916		Wave	mk115 1888 Oil on canvas 60x92cm
71284		woman	mk290 1894 6x9in
71265		woman arranging her hair opus	mk290 1892 23x27in
11583		Woman by Lamplight	1890 9 3/4'' x 6''(24.5 x 15 cm)Gift of Mrs.Ginette Signac,1976
71223		woman reading	1887 9x5in musee d orsay paris gift of ginette signac1979
54185		Woman Taking up Her Hair	mk235 1892 Oil on canvas 59x70cm
71275		woman with a parasol	mk290 1893 32x26in
3824		Women at the Well	1892 Musee d'Orsay,Paris
40826		WOmen at the Well	mk156 1892 Oil on canvas 210x146cm
80144		Women at the Well	Paul Signac: Women at the Well, 1892; Oil on canvas cjr
21105		Women at the Well (Young Provencal Women at the Well) (mk06)	1892 (Salon des Independants,1893)6' 4 3/4'' x 4' 3 1/2''(195 x 131 cm)RF 1979-5
71269		women at the well opus	mk290 1892 76x51in
71330		yellow sunset	mk290 1918 7x9in

Paul Signac
1863-1935 French Paul Signac Galleries Paul Victor Jules Signac was born in Paris on November 11, 1863. He followed a course of training in architecture before deciding at the age of 18 to pursue a career as a painter. He sailed around the coasts of Europe, painting the landscapes he encountered. He also painted scenes of cities in France in his later years. In 1884 he met Claude Monet and Georges Seurat. He was struck by the systematic working methods of Seurat and by his theory of colours and became Seurat's faithful supporter. Under his influence he abandoned the short brushstrokes of impressionism to experiment with scientifically juxtaposed small dots of pure colour, intended to combine and blend not on the canvas but in the viewer's eye, the defining feature of pointillism. Many of Signac's paintings are of the French coast. He left the capital each summer, to stay in the south of France in the village of Collioure or at St. Tropez, where he bought a house and invited his friends. In March 1889, he visited Vincent van Gogh at Arles. The next year he made a short trip to Italy, seeing Genoa, Florence, and Naples. The Port of Saint-Tropez, oil on canvas, 1901Signac 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, basing his boat at St. Tropez, which he "discovered". From his various ports of call, Signac brought back vibrant, colourful watercolors, sketched rapidly from nature. From these sketches, he painted large studio canvases that are carefully worked out in small, mosaic-like squares of color, quite different from the tiny, variegated dots previously used by Seurat. Signac himself experimented with various media. As well as oil paintings and watercolours he made etchings, lithographs, and many pen-and-ink sketches composed of small, laborious dots. The neo-impressionists influenced the next generation: Signac inspired Henri Matisse and Andr?? Derain in particular, thus playing a decisive role in the evolution of Fauvism. As president of the Societe des Artistes Ind??pendants from 1908 until his death, Signac encouraged younger artists (he was the first to buy a painting by Matisse) by exhibiting the controversial works of the Fauves and the Cubists.