Before 1908, Signac’s watercolour sketches were fairly conventional in their use of white space, and were preparation for his oil paintings. He then saw late watercolours of Paul Cézanne.
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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.
After a month in Venice he had amassed 200 watercolour studies which were to keep him busy for the next two years painting shimmering views of the city.
More gorges from Edward Lear, Frederic Church, Signac, Thoma, Hodler and others, from the Alps to Iran.
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