1947 After Paul Signac, "Venice Landscape" First Edition Parisian Lithograph

Description

A stunning vintage First Edition offset lithograph print after neo-impressionist painting "Paysage de Venise" (Venice Landscape) by Parisian artist Paul … more A stunning vintage First Edition offset lithograph print after neo-impressionist painting "Paysage de Venise" (Venice Landscape) by Parisian artist Paul Signac. Comes from a rare First Limited and Only Edition art folio published by Albert Skira in Paris, France in 1947. Signed in the print. Printed on one side. Hand tipped-in on a board of heavy paper. Information regarding the original artwork will be found by lifting the plate. Very detailed. Colors are brilliant. Excellent condition - minor edge wear on the board, never framed.

Overall 15"W x 11"H
Image 9.8"W x 8.25"H

Paul Victor Jules Signac (1863-1935), who was both intelligent and well-read, was influenced heavily by modern theories on optics and color as well as by the work of the Impressionists, who were on the cutting edge of artistic innovation when he was a teenager and young man in the Parisian bohemian neighborhood of Montmartre. Signac's style changed substantially as he incorporated the techniques and theories of Neo-Impressionism (also known as "Divisionism" and "Pointillism") that he developed in collaboration with Georges Seurat. The rapid, varied brushstrokes of his Impressionist style, intended to convey the effects of light on objects, were transformed into the small, roughly square points of Neo-Impressionism. Signac, Seurat, and their fellow Neo-Impressionists began a process in Modernism of breaking down the basic components of a painting, in a way, separating color from the objects it described - an important step toward the further abstraction by later artists. less