In Saint-Briac, when the air is hot, the masts of the beacons seem to twist.
The whole bay vibrates although the sandy beach in the foreground is pristine, the water is flat and the sky empty.
This effect of light diffracted by the atmosphere, Paul Signac (1863-1935) obtained it by the division of colors, fawn before the letter, posed point by point.
In clouds.
Opus 210
, in front of which the public lingers at the Jacquemart-André Museum, sniffing a foretaste of holidays, dates from the start of this so-called divisionist approach.
It even comes from the “opus period” where the artist pushes this path in a desire for austerity and even abstraction.
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It is one of the 45 oils or watercolors presented by the master.
All from a private Swiss family collection which has toured extensively in recent years, from Lausanne to Montpellier, from Giverny to Lugano.
Fortunately, as we can see in Paris, it seems infinitely rich.
Because in addition to this Signac set sufficient to evoke each chapter
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