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"Signac collector": follow the pointillist

2021-10-24T21:25:27.478Z


EXHIBITION - As a shrewd amateur, the painter bought the paintings of his contemporaries. An exhibition at the Musée d'Orsay reconstitutes his collection, a reflection of his freedom of taste and his anarchist morality.


He sails in the great bath of life, Paul Signac (1863-1935), taking with him all the elements of what constitutes him.

At the Musée d'Orsay, the pointillist touch used by comrade Théo Van Rysselberghe in his portrait representing him at the helm of his boat could symbolize his taste.

A taste like a cloud of atoms, made up of desires, encounters, and agglomerated influences for more than half a century and which a personal collection has materialized as much made up of purchases as of donations or exchanges.

Thanks to her great-granddaughter Charlotte Hellman, responsible for the painter's personal archives, and to the artist's specialist Marina Ferretti-Bocquillon, this set is now perfectly listed.

Here it is even significantly reconstituted within the beneficiary institution of important donations and donations Signac, in particular on behalf of the granddaughter Françoise Cachin, brilliant historian of Post-Impressionism who presided over the Musée d'Orsay when it opened.

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Source: lefigaro

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