Lot Essay
The present drawing depicts, in a very atmospheric manner, the entrance to Rotterdam's busy harbour. Signac painted a large painting of the same subject, Rotterdam (le port), 1907 (Cachin 448; fig. 1), which is now in the Boijmans Van Beuningen Museum in Amsterdam. There is also another drawing of this subject in the Louvres (RF 50831; fonds Orsay).
(fig. 1) Paul Signac, Rotterdam (le port), 1907. Boijmans Van Beunungen Museum, Rotterdam; © Boijmans Van Beunungen Museum, Rotterdam.
(fig. 1) Paul Signac, Rotterdam (le port), 1907. Boijmans Van Beunungen Museum, Rotterdam; © Boijmans Van Beunungen Museum, Rotterdam.