A burgundy cloth casebound book with the title in gilt lettering down the

A burgundy cloth casebound book with the title in gilt lettering down the spine. There is a dust jacket with the title in white down a bight blue spine. Pages: (4), vi-xii, (2), 3-340. Profusely illustrated with a majority color images. "This book, the catalogue of the first retrospective of the work of the French Neoimpressionist artist Paul Signac to be held in nearly forty years, accompanies the 2001 exhibition organised by the Reunion des Musees Nationaux/Musee d'Orsay, Paris, the Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam, and The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. This long overdue tribute to Signac's power of expression and artistic influence features some two hundred paintings, drawings, watercolours, and prints from public and private collections worldwide. Fully illustrated in colour and discussed in individual entries, these works offer an unprecedented overview of Signac's fifty-year career. Signac's artistic development began with the luminous plein air paintings he made in the early 1880s which reveal the lessons he absorbed from Monet, Guillaumin, and other leading Impressionists. From 1884 until 1891 Signac's close association with Georges Seurat encouraged his explorations of colour harmony, contrasts, and Neoimpressionist technique. In the scintillating works of his maturity the rigours of Pointillism gave way to richly patterned, decorative colour surfaces. In a series of essays the exhibition's curators disc." Contents are as follows: Out of Seurat's shadow: Signac, 1863-1935, an introduction / John Leighton--Signac: drawings and watercolors / Marina Ferretti-Bocquillon--Signac: the graphic work / Sjraar van Heugten--Portrait of Paul Signac: yachtsman, writer, indépendant, and revolutionary / Anne Distel--Signac as a collector / Marina Ferretti-Bocquillon--An artist among artists: Signac beyond the neo-impressionist circle / Susan Alyson Stein--[Catalogue]. Paul Signac, impressionist painter, 1882-1885--First years of neo-impressionism, 1886-1891--Saint-Tropez, 1892-1900--Ports and travels: Paul Signac in the twentieth century--Chronology / adapted by Kathryn Calley Galitz from the chronology by Marina Ferretti-Bocquillon in Cachin 2000; edited and translated by M.E.D. Laing.

Size: 156x20x200; In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title!

Size: 156x20x200; In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title!