After a promisingly Realist start at the age of just 17, he progressed through Impressionist style and became a Divisionist in 1887-88.
Divisionism
In the last decade of his career, he visited Venice twice and painted it extensively. He also turned more to watercolours.
A pupil of Carol’s-Duran, he switched to Divisionism/Pointillism in 1891, when Georges Seurat died. Early paintings are gentle and delicate before he turned the chroma up.
For this final decade, he was prolific, painting a series of ports of France in 1929-31, and many other views of the coast of France and of Corsica.
Ports of France, and a town with its rivers, together with a floral still life inspired by the late watercolours of Paul Cézanne.
He originally used watercolours for preparatory sketches, but exhibited them in their own right later. They reveal a quite different art from his oil paintings.
Examining the detail of how he applied patches of paint over a period of almost fifty years reveals how his pointillism changed.
Pointillist oil paintings from the last 15 years of his life, when he mainly painted watercolours. These concentrate on ports and bridges of Paris.
He almost stopped painting in oils from 1910 until the end of the war. But his few works continued to develop his Neo-Impressionist style.
Paintings of Rotterdam and Amsterdam, followed by six weeks in Istanbul, where he painted the Golden Horn and the Süleymaniye Mosque.
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