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PAUL SIGNAC, Sans titre (Calvi), 1935

PAUL SIGNAC Français, 1863-1935

Sans titre (Calvi), 1935
Aquarelle sur papier
Watercolor on paper
27,5 x 43 cm
10 7/8 x 16 7/8 in
© Estate Paul Signac
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FR VERSION En 1935, quelques mois avant sa mort, Paul Signac effectue deux voyages en Corse, une île qu’il souhaitait découvrir depuis longtemps. Dès février, il se rend une première...
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En 1935, quelques mois avant sa mort, Paul Signac effectue deux voyages en Corse, une île qu’il souhaitait découvrir depuis longtemps. Dès février, il se rend une première fois sur l’île avant d’y retourner en mai et juin pour longer le littoral, de Saint-Florent et L’Île-Rousse jusqu’à Calvi, Ajaccio et Propriano. Grand navigateur depuis 1880, Signac confie alors à son épouse Berthe : « J’aimerais aller voir cette île et y travailler avant de mourir… Cela renouvellerait mon répertoire de tableaux, et je pourrais en tirer parti. » Ce second séjour, qui constitue le dernier voyage de sa carrière, s’inscrit dans la continuité de ses recherches sur les variations de la lumière et de la couleur dans le paysage méditerranéen.


Par la spontanéité de son exécution, l’aquarelle offre à Signac une liberté particulière dans la transcription du paysage, contrastant avec l’élaboration plus réfléchie de ses peintures néo-impressionnistes. Au fil de ses escales corses, l’artiste réalise ainsi une série d’aquarelles dans lesquelles il saisit avec vivacité les impressions fugitives du littoral et les subtiles variations de la lumière. Comme le souligne Marina Bocquillon-Ferretti à propos de ce dernier voyage : « Passant d’un port à l’autre avec l’énergie d’un jeune homme, il réalisa ses dernières notes méditerranéennes. Deux mois seulement avant sa mort, survenue le 15 août, il travaillait sans relâche à une éblouissante série d’aquarelles. »


EN VERSION

In 1935, a few months before his death, Paul Signac made two trips to Corsica, an island he had long wished to discover. In February, he visited the island for the first time before returning in May and June to travel along the coastline, from Saint-Florent and L’Île-Rousse to Calvi, Ajaccio and Propriano. An experienced sailor since 1880, Signac confided to his wife Berthe: “I would like to go and see this island and work there before I die… It would renew my repertoire of paintings, and I could make use of it.” This second stay, which marked the last journey of his career, was a continuation of his research into variations in light and colour in the Mediterranean landscape.

Through the spontaneity of its execution, watercolour offered Signac a particular freedom in his depiction of the landscape, contrasting with the more considered development of his Neo-Impressionist paintings. Throughout his stops in Corsica, the artist thus produced a series of watercolours in which he vividly captured the fleeting impressions of the coastline and the subtle variations of light. As Marina Bocquillon-Ferretti points out regarding this final journey: “Moving from one port to another with the energy of a young man, he produced his last Mediterranean notes. Just two months before his death, which occurred on 15 August, he was working tirelessly on a dazzling series of watercolours.”

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Estate Paul Signac (par descendance)
Estate Paul Signac (through descent)
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