Paul Signac

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Erisava Staff Jul 25

Notre-Dame-de-la-Garde (La Bonne-Mère), Marseilles by Paul Signac, 1905

Notre-Dame-de-la-Garde (La Bonne-Mère), Marseilles

Metropolitan Museum of Art · wikidata.org

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Ports were his element — he sailed properly, owned a run of boats and painted his way round the Mediterranean coast. The dots were a theory at the time, as I understand it: set pure colours next to each other and let your eye do the mixing instead of muddying them on the palette.