Paul SIGNAC (1863-1935) - Lot 183

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Paul SIGNAC (1863-1935) - Lot 183
Paul SIGNAC (1863-1935) Venice. La Dogana seen from the Zattere, 1908 Black stone, watercolor and white highlights on paper Signed lower left, located and dated lower right. Sent "for the good friend Person / 19.4.09" and monogrammed lower right on the artist's bowl mount. 27.7 x 43.7 cm A certificate from Marina FERRETTI of the Archives Paul Signac will be given to the buyer. NOTE: - Paul Signac made his first trip in 1890 with his mother, followed by several others to Venice, which was a remarkable motif for him, with the city's reflections mingling with the sky and sea like a mirage of the Orient. This experience enabled him to deepen his color research, and his touch became more fluid, a reminder of the sumptuous mosaics of the San Marco basilica. In the spring of 1904, he returned to the city with his wife, tirelessly touring the city and its lagoon. [...] The works were actually presented at the Galerie Druet in December of the same year". (Isabelle JULIA, in Voyager et dessiner : Dessins du musée du Louvre et du musée d'Orsay, 1580-1900, cat. exp. by C. Loisel, L. Angelucci, F. Joulie, I. Julia, N. Lemoine-Bouchard, Ch. Leribault, Moscow, Galerie Tretiakov, September 21-November 14 2010, no. 56, catalog published in Russian). - Paul SIGNAC and painter Henri PERSON (1876-1926) shared a passion for painting and sailing. They also shared a deep love of Saint-Tropez. Together, they sailed from port to port, often visiting the motif to paint side by side, later comparing their works. In 1907, the two artists visited Constantinople together and acquired a joint boat, Le Sinbad. Their friendship continued through a long correspondence, in which they warmly exchanged views on painting, sailing and their mutual friends. These letters bear witness to a deep and intimate relationship between the two men. - This drawing was made in April 1908, during a stay in Venice following a trip to Italy, where he visited Liguria, Tuscany, Rome, Perugia and Verona. During this stay in Venice, Signac produced a number of watercolors that resulted in eleven views of Venice painted that same year, 1908 (cf. F. Cachin, Paul Signac, Paris, 2000, nos. 465-475). In almost all these compositions, Signac depicted sailboats in the foreground, as in this drawing. The very sober white mount on which this drawing is pasted, with a bowl 2 cm from the drawing, is the one chosen and commissioned by Signac for what he considered his best drawings.
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