Le Pin de Bertaud (Bertaud's Pine), 1899-1900
Paul Signac
Oil on canvas
A glowing combination of dabs of contrasting colours which transform the small dots of pointillisme into a mosaic-like, decorative composition, capture the fall of evening sunshine on a celebrated Mediterranean pine on the French Riviera. Signac made his home in Saint-Tropez - which can be seen in the background - in 1892, the year following Seurat's death. From there, Signac continued to develop and theorise on Neo-Impressionism, and through exhibitions and publications had a profound effect on younger artists. In 1902 he was sought out by Henri Matisse, who briefly adopted his technique.*
From the exhibition
After Impressionism: Inventing Modern Art
(March – August 2023)
Explore a period of great upheaval when artists broke with established tradition and laid the foundations for the art of the 20th and the 21st centuries.
The decades between 1880 and the outbreak of the First World War in 1914 were a complex, vibrant period of artistic questioning, searching, risk-taking and innovation.
The exhibition celebrates the achievements of three giants of the era: Paul Cézanne, Vincent van Gogh and Paul Gauguin and follows the influences they had on younger generations of French artists, on their peers and on wider circles of artists across Europe in Barcelona, Berlin, Brussels and Vienna.
With nearly a hundred works by artists ranging from Klimt and Munch, Matisse and Picasso to Mondrian and Kandinsky complemented by a selection of sculpture by artists including Rodin and Camille Claudel, the exhibition follows the creation of a new, modern art, free of convention, taking in Expressionism, Cubism and Abstraction.
[*National Gallery]
Taken in the National Gallery
Le Pin de Bertaud (Bertaud's Pine), 1899-1900
Paul Signac
Oil on canvas
A glowing combination of dabs of contrasting colours which transform the small dots of pointillisme into a mosaic-like, decorative composition, capture the fall of evening sunshine on a celebrated Mediterranean pine on the French Riviera. Signac made his home in Saint-Tropez - which can be seen in the background - in 1892, the year following Seurat's death. From there, Signac continued to develop and theorise on Neo-Impressionism, and through exhibitions and publications had a profound effect on younger artists. In 1902 he was sought out by Henri Matisse, who briefly adopted his technique.*
From the exhibition
After Impressionism: Inventing Modern Art
(March – August 2023)
Explore a period of great upheaval when artists broke with established tradition and laid the foundations for the art of the 20th and the 21st centuries.
The decades between 1880 and the outbreak of the First World War in 1914 were a complex, vibrant period of artistic questioning, searching, risk-taking and innovation.
The exhibition celebrates the achievements of three giants of the era: Paul Cézanne, Vincent van Gogh and Paul Gauguin and follows the influences they had on younger generations of French artists, on their peers and on wider circles of artists across Europe in Barcelona, Berlin, Brussels and Vienna.
With nearly a hundred works by artists ranging from Klimt and Munch, Matisse and Picasso to Mondrian and Kandinsky complemented by a selection of sculpture by artists including Rodin and Camille Claudel, the exhibition follows the creation of a new, modern art, free of convention, taking in Expressionism, Cubism and Abstraction.
[*National Gallery]
Taken in the National Gallery