Volume 48, Number 20 · December 20, 2001
An Anarchist's Art
By Robert L. Herbert
Signac, 1863–1935
catalog of the exhibition by Marina Ferretti-Bocquillon, Anne Distel, John Leighton, and Susan Alyson Stein
an exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, October 9–December 30, 2001.
Metropolitan Museum of Art/Yale University Press, 340 pp., $65.00; $45.00 (paper)
Signac: Catalogue raisonné de l'oeuvre peint
by Françoise Cachin, with Marina Ferretti-Bocquillon
Paris: Gallimard, 430 pp., FF750
Signac et la libération de la couleur: De Matisse à Mondrian
edited by Erich Franz
Paris: Réunion des Musées Nationaux,398 pp. (out of print)
On March 21, 1890, the Petite Presse in Paris gave an account of the visit by the president of France, Sadi Carnot, to the annual exhibition of the Society of Independent Artists. 'President Carnot had himself introduced to Messieurs Seurat and Signac, two young impressionists, who made themselves available to explain to the President the processes and merits of the new school.'[1] This was the most public moment in the curious partnership of Georges Seurat and Paul Signac, leaders of 'the new school' that has since been known as Neo-Impressionism. Seurat was a loner, secretive to the point of jealousy, whereas Signac was an ebullient, outgoing activist who was the spokesman for the movement. The partnership ended with Seurat's death at the age of thirty-one in April 1891, but ever since the two have been so closely linked that Signac's luster has become dim alongside the glory of his friend.
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