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Paul Signac mainly collects the works of his contemporaries.
A leading figure in neo-impressionism, a founding member of the Salon des Artistes Indépendants (1884), a major exhibition organizer, he is indeed at the heart of current art. He learned his trade by looking at the works of the Impressionists who had a real admiration for Claude Monet, of whom he would be a friend until his death, as well as to Edgar Degas, Gustave Caillebotte, Armand Guillaumin.
Signac, from a wealthy merchant family, brings together important works, his first acquisition being a landscape by Paul Cézanne.
This autodidact has a predilection for pure color, Pissarro will be a bene- volent teacher for him and he will find a friend in the person of Seurat. Signac collects from Impressionism to Fauvism via Neo-Impressionism. On the death of his friend Seurat, who left suddenly at the age of thirty- one, Signac became the leader of the movement.
Claude Monet (1840-1926)
Apple trees in blossom by the water 1880, oil on canvas 73 x 60 cm
Private collection