The Port at sunset, Opus 236 (Saint-Tropez)

In 1892 Paul Signac transferred his yacht "Olympia" to Saint-Tropez, still an unassumung fishing village at the time, where he bought a house on the coast. He painted this composition there that same year. The application of the complementary colors violet and orange in tiny dots cause the picture to vibrate. Light is no longer featured as an atmosphere that surrounds an object, but instead as stimulating particles.