Cleveland Museum of Art

Saint-Tropez: The Port

Paul Signac

Date

1897–98

Medium

color lithograph

Culture

France, 20th century

Department

Prints

Institution

Cleveland Museum of Art

Signac adapted for the lithographic process the style he and George Seurat (1859-1891) developed in the 1880s for painting: pointillism. Brilliantly colored dots were juxtaposed to produce a full optical tonal range more luminous than can be obtained from pigments mixed on the palette. Saint-Tropez, printed in six colors (blue, blue-gray, red, pink, yellow, and green), demonstrates that lithography was a perfect vehicle for translating these artists' scientific ideas about color.

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