Description
Letters from French painter Paul Signac to several colleagues discussing work in progress, exhibitions, contemporary art,
the Société des Artistes Indépendants, and personal and financial matters. A significant number addressed to Edouard Fer,
a neo-impressionist disciple whose independent means and connections enabled him to promote Signac's career. Other correspondents
include Camille Pissarro, Claude Monet, Georges Turpin, Henri Martineau, Georges Lecomte, and Luc-Albert Moreau. Most of the
letters are Signac family correspondence; some of these are addressed by Paul Signac to his cousins.
Background
Parisian painter Paul Signac (1863-1935), a founder of the Salon des Indépendants, developed with Georges Seurat the technique
of pointillism, or divisionism, and was a principal adherent and spokesman for the Neo-Impressionist movement. He was the
author of the books
D'Eugène Delacroix au néo-impressionnisme (1899) and
Jongkind (1927).