The Port, Saint-Tropez

Original Language TitleSt. Tropez: Le Port

Artist Paul Signac (French, 1863 - 1935)

Date1898

MediumColor lithograph on paper

DimensionsImage: 17 1/8 × 12 15/16 inches (43.5 × 32.86 cm)
Sheet: 20 1/2 × 16 inches (52.07 × 40.64 cm)

Credit LineGift of Richard S. Davis

Object number53-28

Edition/State/Proof80/100

On View

Not on view

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Exhibition History

Print Exhibition, Kansas Wesleyan University, Salina, KS, April 27-May 4, 1958.

Exhibition of Contemporary Prints, William Jewell College, Liberty, MO, November 1-13, 1959.

Albrecht Art Gallery, St. Joseph, MO, September 18-October 19, 1966.

Fifty Years of Gifts to the Print Department, Part 1, 1933-1958: 50th Anniversary Exhibition: October 23 - November 20, 1983, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, October 23-November 20, 1983, no. 28, as Port de St. Tropez.

Gallery Label

Paul Signac was one of the leading practitioners of pointillism, a style in which pure colors were applied in small dots to give an effect of heightened luminosity. Though primarily a painter, Signac turned to printmaking as a means to reach a wider audience. He adapted his pointillist style to the medium of color lithography, producing a small number of masterful prints that depict coastal and harbor scenes. Here, Signac achieved an effect of brilliant, pulsating light by juxtaposing the complimentary colors of violet and yellow.

Provenance

Richard S. Davis (1917–1985), Wayzata, MN, by December 26, 1952 [1];

Given by Davis to The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 1953.

NOTES:

[1] Lt. Richard Siebe Davis, USNR, was a curator (1948–56) and then director (1956–59) at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts. From January–May 1946 while assigned to Tokyo, Davis served as a “Monuments Man” in the Monuments, Fine Arts, and Archives (MFAA) Section during World War II.

Published References

[George L. McKenna], The Fifty Years of Gifts to the Print Department, Part 1, 1933-1958: 50th Anniversary Exhibition: October 23 - November 20, 1983, exh. cat. (Kansas City, MO: Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 1983), no. 28, as Port de St. Tropez.

Pat Gilmour, "New Light on Paul Signac's Colour Lithographs," The Burlington Magazine 132, no. 1045 (April 1990): 271-275.

Una E. Johnson, Ambroise Vollard, Editeur: Prints, Books, Bronzes, exh. cat. (New York: Museum of Modern Art, 1977), 151, as Port de Saint-Tropez.

George L. McKenna, Prints, 1460-1995 (Kansas City, MO: Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 1996), 298, as St. Tropez: Le Port.

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