French1863–1935
Paul Signac
A painter who, with Seurat, developed the pointillist dot method and became its main champion. He sailed the French coast and painted harbours in shimmering colour.
A life in paintings
- 1863Born
- 1884The Salon des Indépendants
A new annual exhibition with no jury opens in Paris. Anyone who pays can show.
Source: WikipediaWorked with Georges SeuratParisSeurat and Signac met at the founding of the Société des Artistes Indépendants in 1884 and together developed Neo-Impressionism; after Seurat's early death in 1891 Signac became its chief theorist.
Source: Wikipedia - 1886The last Impressionist exhibition
Seurat shows a huge picture made of dots, and the group splits over it.
- 1887Worked with Vincent van GoghAsnières; Arles
Van Gogh and Signac met at Père Tanguy's paint shop and in 1887 painted together along the Seine at Asnières; Signac recalled Vincent 'in a blue zinc worker's smock' with dots of colour on his sleeves. Signac visited him in Arles in March 1889.
Source: Van Gogh Museum - 1889The Paris World’s Fair
The Eiffel Tower opens for the Exposition Universelle, and Paris shows itself as the capital of the modern world.
Source: Wikipedia - 1894
- 1904Influenced Henri MatisseSaint-Tropez
Matisse spent summer 1904 with Signac at Saint-Tropez, working alongside him and Henri-Edmond Cross, and learned the Divisionist dot. The result, Luxe, Calme et Volupté, is counted the starting point of Fauvism; Signac bought it.
Source: Wikipedia - 1935Died
School friends in Paris in the 1870s who later studied art together; Signac introduced Rivière to the Montmartre cabarets, above all Le Chat Noir.
Circles
Exhibition · New York, Chicago, Boston · 1913
Armory Show (1913)
The International Exhibition of Modern Art that introduced European modern art to American audiences, shown in New York, Chicago and Boston in 1913. Members here are artists whose work was included, living or not.
- Alfred Sisley
- Amadeo de Souza-Cardoso
- André Derain
- Camille Pissarro
- Childe Hassam
- Claude Monet
- Edgar Degas
- Édouard Manet
- Edvard Munch
- Edward Hopper
- Ernst Ludwig Kirchner
- Ferdinand Hodler
- Fernand Léger
- George Wesley Bellows
- Georges Seurat
- Gustave Courbet
- Henri Matisse
- Henri Rousseau
- Henri-Edmond Cross
- Joseph Stella
- Marsden Hartley
- Mary Cassatt
- Maurice Prendergast
- Paul Cézanne
- Pierre-Auguste Renoir
- Robert Delaunay
- Vincent van Gogh
- Wassily Kandinsky
- William Glackens
Exhibition · Paris · 1874
Impressionist exhibitions
The eight independent group shows, 1874-1886. Pissarro alone showed at all eight; Cassatt at four; Renoir 1874, 1876, 1877, 1882; Seurat and Signac only at the 8th (1886). Manet never exhibited with them.
- Alfred Sisley
- Camille Pissarro
- Claude Monet
- Edgar Degas
- Georges Seurat
- Gustave Caillebotte
- Mary Cassatt
- Paul Cézanne
- Pierre-Auguste Renoir
Society · Paris · 1884
Société des Artistes Indépendants
Jury-free annual salon founded 1884 by Seurat, Signac, Dubois-Pillet, Redon and others. Home of Neo-Impressionism; Henri Rousseau first showed there in 1886.
- Fernand Léger
- Georges Seurat
- Henri Matisse
- Henri Rousseau
- Henri-Edmond Cross
- Maximilien Luce
- Robert Delaunay
- Vincent van Gogh
Where to see them
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
New York
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