Paul Signac (1863-1935)

Cassis. Le port

細節

Paul Signac (1863-1935)
Cassis. Le port
signed 'P. Signac' (lower left)
oil on panel
10¼ x 13¾ in. (26 x 35 cm.)
Painted in 1889

來源

Estate of the artist.
Galerie Goldschmidt, Frankfurt.
Mrs. Arno Witten (by 1950).
Anon. sale, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 4 December 1995, lot 6.
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner.

出版

F. Cachin, Signac, Catalogue raisonné de l'oeuvre peint, Paris, 2000, p. 193, no. 187 (illustrated).

展覽

Contemporary Art Society Loan Exhibition, 1950 (titled The Harbour à Cassis).

拍品專文

Signac spent the summer of 1889 in Cassis, a picturesque port town near Marseilles in the Bouches-du-Rhône, where he delighted in the resplendent sunlight and alluring seaside that the Mediterranean town offered. Signac praised the natural beauty of Cassis in a letter dated 12 April 1889 to his friend Vincent van Gogh, whom he had just visited in the hospital in Arles earlier that summer: "White, blue and orange, harmoniously spread over the beautiful rise and fall of the land. All around, mountains with rhythmic curves" (in The Complete Letters of Vincent Van Gogh, London, 1958, vol. 3, p. 153, letter 584a.).
The present painting is one of six works that Signac painted at Cassis that summer (Cachin, nos. 181-187), all focusing on the tranquility and brilliant colors of the sea.