Sardine Fishing
Soleil couchant, pêche à la sardine, Opus 221 (Adagio) de la série La Mer, les barques, Concarneau 1891 (Setting Sun. Sardine Fishing. Adagio. Opus 221, from the series The Sea, The Boats, Concarneau 1891), 1891
Paul Signac
Oil on canvas
This painting forms part of a series depicting sardine boats sailing to and from the Breton port of Concarneau at different times of the day. This evening view is radical in its pared-down simplicity, rhythmic geometry and limited palette of blues and yellows. The sense of the work's elements being orchestrated to an emotional effect is reflected in his use of the musical terms 'Opus' (work) and 'Adagio' (slow) in the picture's title. The series was exhibited in Brussels the year after it was painted*
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
Sardine Fishing
Soleil couchant, pêche à la sardine, Opus 221 (Adagio) de la série La Mer, les barques, Concarneau 1891 (Setting Sun. Sardine Fishing. Adagio. Opus 221, from the series The Sea, The Boats, Concarneau 1891), 1891
Paul Signac
Oil on canvas
This painting forms part of a series depicting sardine boats sailing to and from the Breton port of Concarneau at different times of the day. This evening view is radical in its pared-down simplicity, rhythmic geometry and limited palette of blues and yellows. The sense of the work's elements being orchestrated to an emotional effect is reflected in his use of the musical terms 'Opus' (work) and 'Adagio' (slow) in the picture's title. The series was exhibited in Brussels the year after it was painted*
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