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Signac has long stood at the crossroads of the avant-garde. In 1887, he visited Vincent Van Gogh, who presented him with his painting «Deux Herrings», in memory of a visit during his internment in Arles.
In his collection, Signac favors Fauves like Matisse, De Van Dongen, Camoin, Marquet, Puy, d’Espagnat and especially Valtat.
He is also very interested in nudes, although he rarely broaches the subject himself.
He buys prints by Valloton, a Vuillard and greatly admires Bonnard, but if, curiously, he prefers his half-tone canvases.
Signac mocked the Symbolists and yet could not resist Odilon Redon’s superb “Centaur”, a charcoal masterpiece.Self-taught painter, staunch anarchist, always linking art and friendship, Signac is attached to works as well as to their creators.
A collector with a keen eye, it is his heart that guides him to each of the paintings that mark out his atypical journey through
the twists and turns of art and color.
Georges Seurat (1859-1891)
The Circus 1891 Oil on canvas 186,2 x 152 cm186,2 x 152 cm Paris, musée d’Orsay
Photo © Musée d’Orsay, Dist. RMN-Grand Palais /Patrice Schmidt