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Paul Signac · 1898
Paul Signac: 1863–1935
Other names (6)
Hsi-nieh-kʻo, Paul Victor Jules Signac, Polʹ Sinʹi︠a︡k, p. signac, Signac, signac p.
Biography
Paul Victor Jules Signac ( seen-YAHK, French: [pɔl siɲak]; 11 November 1863 – 15 August 1935) was a French Neo-Impressionist painter who, with Georges Seurat, helped develop the artistic technique Pointillism.
A keen sailor, he is best known for his seascapes and views of ports and rivers.
Paul-Victor-Jules Signac was born in Paris on 11 November 1863. His parents wanted him to study architecture but, as he said, his preference was to draw the Seine. He was particularly affected by an 1880 exhibition of Claude Monet's work. Signac began boating.
In 1884 he met Claude Monet and Georges Seurat. He was struck by the systematic working methods of Seurat and by his theory of colors and he became Seurat's faithful supporter, friend, and heir with his description of Neo-Impressionism and Divisionism method. Under Seurat's influence he abandoned the short brushstrokes of Impressionism to experiment with scientifically-juxtaposed small dots of pure color, intended to combine and blend not on the canvas, but in the viewer's eye, the defining feature of Pointillism.
The Mediterranean coast is a major theme across Signac's paintings.
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Influenced by
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Later influence
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Artworks by year
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Museums & collections
Documented holdings of works attributed to Paul Signac. Check the museum’s record for current display information.
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art29 recorded works
- National Gallery of Art16 recorded works
- L’Annonciade, musée d’art moderne de Saint-Tropez — Saint-Tropez13 recorded works
- Musée d’Orsay12 recorded works
- Art Institute of Chicago11 recorded works
- Statens Museum for Kunst (SMK)10 recorded works
- The Cleveland Museum of Art9 recorded works
- Minneapolis Institute of Art7 recorded works
- musée d'art et d'histoire Paul Eluard — Saint-Denis6 recorded works
- Albertina5 recorded works
- Musée Marmottan Monet4 recorded works
- musée Richard Anacréon — Granville3 recorded works
- Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts3 recorded works
- musée d'art moderne et contemporain de Strasbourg — Strasbourg2 recorded works
- Musée de Grenoble2 recorded works
- musée des beaux-arts Jules Chéret — Nice2 recorded works
- musée Lambinet — Versailles2 recorded works
- Museum of Modern Art2 recorded works
- Ateneum Art Museum1 recorded work
- musée Cantini — Marseille1 recorded work
- Musée Carnavalet1 recorded work
- musée Crozatier — Le Puy-en-Velay1 recorded work
- musée départemental d'art ancien et contemporain — Epinal1 recorded work
- musée des beaux-arts — Chambéry1 recorded work
- musée des Beaux-Arts — Nancy1 recorded work
- musée des Beaux-Arts — Nantes1 recorded work
- musée des beaux-arts — Vannes1 recorded work
- National Museum in Warsaw1 recorded work
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- National Gallery of Art
- Museum authority country review
- Pantheon 2025 — Datawheel (CC BY-SA 4.0)
- Museum authority country review
- SMK: exact creator authority reconciliation
- L’Annonciade, musée d’art moderne de Saint-Tropez — Saint-Tropez
- musée d'Orsay — Paris
- Polish museum and gallery creator authorities
- Pantheon 2025 — Datawheel (CC BY-SA 4.0)
- Expanded artwork research — official museum evidence
- Pantheon 2025 — Datawheel (CC BY-SA 4.0)
