Hvem daterte Paul Signac?

Paul Signac (født 11. november 1863, død 15. august 1935) var en fransk kunstner og maler.

Signac regnes som pointillismens fremste teoretiker. Sammen med blant andre Camille Pissarro begynte han som impresjonist, men fra 1884 fulgte han Georges Seurat i pointilistisk retning. Signac gav en teoretisk redegjørelse for sitt kunstsyn i D'Eugène Delacroix au néo-impressionisme (1899).

Signac malte nesten utelukkende friluftsbilder med lyse, rene spektralfarger, ikke minst havnemotiver fra kysten av Normandie og Middelhavet. Etter hvert ble malingsflekkene stadig større, og begynte å danne et eget abstrakt mønster i bildene. Ofte så blandet han ikke fargene heller. Signacs verker fikk stor betydning for den begynnende modernismen tidlig på 1900-tallet.

Signac stilte ut sammen med de andre impresjonistene på Salon des indépendants i 1884 og på den 8. impresjonistutstilling i 1888.

Jeanne Selmersheim-Desgrange (1877–1958) was a French neo-impressionist painter who used the art technique of pointillism with her main themes of flowers and gardens. Her painting, Garden at La Lune, Saint-Tropez (1909), shows her signature use of “high-key colors and block-like strokes.”

Some of her oil on canvas works are Garden at La Hune, Saint Tropez (1909) (Image on Right), The Flowers, In the Garden (1909), Table blanche, vue sur Saint-Tropez (c. 1930), The Garden, Afternoon Tea, Flowers in the Window, and Bouquet of Flowers.

Selmersheim-Desgrange, raised in a family of artists and architects, became an art student of Paul Signac and later, in 1910, his companion. At the time, Signac was married to Bertha (Robles), and Selmersheim-Desgrange was married to Pierre Desgrange with whom she had three children. In September 1912, Signac and Selmersheim-Desgrange moved to a rented villa in Cap d'Antibes, France and in October 1912 she gave birth to their daughter Ginnette Laurie Anaiis.

In July 1961, Selmersheim-Desgrange’s painting, The Flowers, was one of 57 modern art paintings stolen from the Annonciade Museum of Modern Art in Saint-Tropez, France.