戈尔夫朱昂

In 1892 Signac bought a boat and sailed down to the Mediterranean coast, settling near the little port of Saint-Tropez, and for the rest of his life the southern light and water were his main subject. Golfe-Juan is one of those coastal scenes, painted in 1896: sailboats resting on calm water, trees framing the bay, the whole thing built from small separate touches of pure colour meant to mix in your eye rather than on the palette. This was the method he and Georges Seurat had worked out together, dot by dot. Look at the edge and you will see even the border is painted in the same coloured points. The blues and greens shift by tiny steps across the sea and sky.