A spare, carefully balanced Brittany seascape: a headland on the right, boats at anchor, a sandy foreground built from patient dabs that catch the grain of the sand and the shimmer of water rippling toward shore. One of a series of four Signac painted along the northwest French coast, the idea of working in series picked up from Claude Monet. Paul Signac, French, 1863-1935, 1890. Oil on canvas.
Grows from
My own looking, not RM’s pointing. A quiet sibling to Water Lilies in method: the same impulse to paint a place as a series, to let color and touch do the seeing.
First seen
- Museum of Fine Arts Boston · September 2022