Artist |
Paul Signac
(1863–1935) |
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Alternative names |
Hsi-nieh-kʻo; Polʹ Sinʹi︠a︡k; Paul Victor Jules Signac; Signac; p. signac; signac p. |
Description |
French painter, drawer, aquarellist and printmaker |
Date of birth/death |
11 November 1863 |
15 August 1935 |
Location of birth/death |
Paris |
Paris |
Work period |
from 1882 until 1935 date QS:P,+1500-00-00T00:00:00Z/6,P580,+1882-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P582,+1935-00-00T00:00:00Z/9 |
Work location |
Paris (1882-1935), Asnières-sur-Seine (1887), Arles (March 1889), Italy (1890), Genoa (1890), Florence (1890), Naples (1890), Volendam (1894, 1896), Saint-Tropez (1897-....), Rotterdam (1906, 1907), Antibes (September 1913-....) |
Authority file |
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artist QS:P170,Q151573 |
Object history |
Georges Lecomte, Paris, a gift from the artist, before 1902.
Mme Odile Favrel, Paris.
Galerie Durand-Ruel, Paris, on consignment from the above, by 22 October 1958.
Sam Salz, New York, by 1959.
Mrs Van Horn, Pennsylvania.
Col Edgar William & Bernice Chrysler Garbisch, New York; their sale, Sotheby Parke Bernet, Inc., New York, 12 May 1980, lot 21.
Private collection, New York, by whom acquired at the above sale; sale, Sotheby’s, New York, 11 May 1993, lot 23.
Acquavella Galleries, New York, by whom acquired at the above sale.
Acquired from the above, in May 1994. |
Exhibition history |
Paris, Salons de l’hôtel Brébant, Exposition des Peintres Néo-Impressionnistes, December 1892 - January 1893, no. 58, n.p. (titled ‘Soleil couché (Saint-Tropez)’).
Brussels, Musée d'Art Moderne, 10e Exposition des XX, February 1893 (titled ‘Op 233 Soleil couchant/Soleil couché. Saint-Tropez’).
Anvers, Association pour L’Art, Seconde exposition annuelle, May 1893, n.p. (titled ‘Op. 233 Soleil couchant/Soleil couché Saint Tropez’).
Saint-Tropez, Musée de l’Annonciade, Signac & Saint-Tropez, 1892-1913, June - October 1992, no. 1, p. 30 (illustrated p. 31); this exibition later travelled to Reims, Musée des Beaux-Arts, November - December 1992.
Paris, Galeries Nationales du Grand Palais, Signac, 1863-1935, February - May 2001, no. 59 (illustrated); this exhibition later travelled to Amsterdam, Van Gogh Museum, June - September 2001, no. 61, pp. 179-180 (illustrated; illustrated again on the cover); and New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, October - December 2001 (illustrated; illustrated again on the cover).
Washington, D.C., The Phillips Collection, Neo-Impressionism and the Dream of Realities: Painting, Poetry, Music, September 2014 - January 2015, fig. 83, pp. 114 & 180 (illustrated p. 119; detail illustrated p. 100). |