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Lot Essay
Franoise Cachin will include this painting in her forthcoming Signac catalogue raisonn.
In Signac's notes, the present work is numbered 21 and was painted in 1884. A year earlier, Signac had made a small sketch which he entitled Par la plage. The study was included in the 1963-1964 exhibition of Signac at the Muse du Louvre, where it was noted:
Signac spent three consecutive summers at Port-en-Bessin in Normandy. . .At that time he was still under the influence of Monet, Pissarro and Renoir and worked directly from nature. In 1884 he met Seurat and brought him to Port-en-Bessin. Seurat was so inspired by this subject that he painted six canvases there (M.-T. Lemoyne de Forges, Signac, exh. cat., Muse du Louvre, Paris, 1963-1964, p. 5).
In 1884, Signac exhibited four paintings at the Socit des Artistes Indpendants, of which two depicted views of Port-en-Bessin. According to Lemoyne de Forges (ibid., p. 7) it is thought that the present work was one of these.
In Signac's notes, the present work is numbered 21 and was painted in 1884. A year earlier, Signac had made a small sketch which he entitled Par la plage. The study was included in the 1963-1964 exhibition of Signac at the Muse du Louvre, where it was noted:
Signac spent three consecutive summers at Port-en-Bessin in Normandy. . .At that time he was still under the influence of Monet, Pissarro and Renoir and worked directly from nature. In 1884 he met Seurat and brought him to Port-en-Bessin. Seurat was so inspired by this subject that he painted six canvases there (M.-T. Lemoyne de Forges, Signac, exh. cat., Muse du Louvre, Paris, 1963-1964, p. 5).
In 1884, Signac exhibited four paintings at the Socit des Artistes Indpendants, of which two depicted views of Port-en-Bessin. According to Lemoyne de Forges (ibid., p. 7) it is thought that the present work was one of these.