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PAUL SIGNAC (1863-1935)

Lot 37
15.10.2025 00:00UTC +01:00
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Lot 37 | PAUL SIGNAC (1863-1935)
Estimate value
£ 2 000 000 – 3 000 000
PAUL SIGNAC (1863-1935)
Marseille. Le vieux port
signed and dated ‘P Signac 1906’ (lower right)
oil on canvas
28 7/8 x 36 1/8 in. (73.3 x 91.8 cm.)
Painted in 1906




Provenance

Henry van de Velde, Brussels, by whom acquired from the artist in 1907.
Galerie de l’Elysée [Alex Maguy], Paris, by 1963.
Josef Rosensaft, Montreux & New York.
Anonymous sale, Galerie Motte, Geneva, 7 November 1969, lot 54.
Gustav Zumsteg, Zurich.
Anonymous sale, Versailles, 30 November 1975, lot 106.
Veirmeren, Paris.
Marlborough Fine Art, London & New York.
Dr Forneri, Marseille.
Anonymous sale, Sotheby Parke Bernet & Co., London, 1 April 1981, lot 26.
Leslie Waddington, London, by whom acquired at the above sale.
Alan Bond, Australia, by whom acquired in 1981; sale, Sotheby’s, London, 26 June 1990, lot 23.
Private collection, The Netherlands.
Galerie Urban, Tokyo, 2000.
Neffe-Degandt Fine Art, London.
Acquired from the above in 2003, and thence by descent to the present owner.



Literature

Cahier manuscrit [The artist's handlist, produced 1905], titled ‘Marseille. Le Vieux Port'.
G. Lévy & P. Signac, Pré-catalogue, circa 1929-1932, p. 374 (illustrated).
G. Lecomte, ‘La vie artistique’ in Le Matin, 25 June 1911, p. 7.
L. Cousturier, Paul Signac, Paris, 1922, p. 35 (a sketch illustrated).
M.-T. Lemoyne de Forges, Signac, Paris, 1963, no. 68.
P. Mornand, ‘Paul Signac au Musée du Louvre’ in La Revue moderne, 1 February 1964, p. 2.
M. Ferretti-Bocquillon, ‘Paul Signac au temps d’harmonie 1892-1913' in Signac et la libération de la couleur, exh. cat., Münster, 1996, p. 63.
F. Cachin, Signac, Catalogue raisonné de l'oeuvre peint, Paris, 2000, no. 441, p. 278 (illustrated).
P. Sanchez, Les expositions de la galerie Eugène Druet, répertoire des artistes exposants et liste de leurs oeuvres, 1903-1938, Dijon, 2009, no. 1911-18, p. 475.



Exhibited

Paris, Bernheim Jeune & Cie., Paul Signac, January - February 1907, no. 15 (a sketch illustrated; titled ‘Marseille. Brume du matin’).
Paris, Galerie E. Druet, Henri Edmond Cross & Paul Signac, June - July 1911, no. 18.
Paris, Musée du Louvre, Signac, December 1963 - February 1964, no. 68, pp. 76 & 77 (illustrated p. 76).
London, O'Hana Gallery, Summer Exhibition: French Paintings and Sculpture of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, May - September 1968, no. 51.
Martigny, Fondation Pierre Gianadda, P. Signac, June - November 2003, no. 50, pp. 11, 120 & 121 (illustrated p. 121).
Paris, Musée d'Orsay, Le néo-impressionisme de Seurat à Paul Klee, March - July 2005, p. 246 (illustrated p. 247).
Avignon, Musée Angladon, P. Signac en Provence, June - October 2006, no. 8, p. 128 (illustrated p. 79).
Madrid, Fundación MAPFRE, neoimpresionismo, la eclosión de la modernidad, April - June 2007, no. 33, p. 190 (illustrated p. 191).
Zug, Kunsthaus, Das Sehen sehen, Neoimpressionismus und Moderne. Signac bis Eliasson, February - June 2008, no. 57, p. 220 (illustrated pl. 57).
Martigny, Fondation Pierre Gianadda, de Renoir à Sam Szafran, Parcours d'un collectionneur, December 2010 - June 2011, no. 19, pp. 53 & 277 (illustrated p. 53).
Venice, Peggy Guggenheim Collection, The Avant-Gardes of Fin-de-Siècle Paris: Signac, Bonnard, Redon, and their contemporaries, September 2013 - January 2014, p. 107 (illustrated).
Lausanne, Fondation de l’Hermitage, Signac, Reflections on Water, January - May 2016, no. 47, pp. 25 & 180 (illustrated p. 89); this exhibition later travelled to Lugano, Museo d’arte della Svizzera italiana, September 2016 - January 2017.
Montreal, Musée des Beaux-Arts, Paris au temps du post impressionnisme, Signac et les Indépendants, March - September 2020, no. 58, pp. 74 & 363 (illustrated p. 75).
Paris, Musée Jacquemart André, Signac, Les harmonies colorées, March - July 2021, no. 48, p. 244 (illustrated).
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