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Saint-Tropez: The Port

Paul Signac1897–98

The Cleveland Museum of Art

The Cleveland Museum of Art
Cleveland, United States

Signac adapted for the lithographic process the style he and George Seurat (1859-1891) developed in the 1880s for painting: pointillism. Brilliantly colored dots were juxtaposed to produce a full optical tonal range more luminous than can be obtained from pigments mixed on the palette. Saint-Tropez, printed in six colors (blue, blue-gray, red, pink, yellow, and green), demonstrates that lithography was a perfect vehicle for translating these artists' scientific ideas about color.

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  • Title: Saint-Tropez: The Port
  • Creator: Paul Signac (French, 1863-1935)
  • Date Created: 1897–98
  • Physical Dimensions: Image: 43.5 x 33 cm (17 1/8 x 13 in.); Sheet: 50.8 x 38.2 cm (20 x 15 1/16 in.)
  • Provenance: (Ferdinand Roten Galleries, Baltimore, MD), The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
  • Type: Print
  • Rights: CC0
  • External Link: https://clevelandart.org/art/1953.346
  • Medium: color lithograph
  • Department: Prints
  • Culture: France, 20th century
  • Credit Line: Gift of The Print Club of Cleveland in memory of William J. Eastman
  • Collection: PR - Lithograph
  • Accession Number: 1953.346
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