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PAUL SIGNAC (1863-1935)

Lot 14
15.10.2025 00:00UTC +01:00
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ID 1472413
Lot 14 | PAUL SIGNAC (1863-1935)
Estimate value
£ 4 000 000 – 6 000 000
PAUL SIGNAC (1863-1935)
L’Arc-en-ciel (Venise)
signed and dated ‘P Signac 05’ (lower left)
oil on canvas
28 7/8 x 36 ¼ in. (73.3 x 91.8 cm.)
Painted in 1905




Provenance

Galerie E. Druet, Paris.
Alexandre Louis Philippe Marie Berthier, 4th Prince de Wagram, Paris, by 5 March 1906.
J. Piot, Paris, by 21 January 1921 and until at least 1928.
Anonymous sale, Palais Galliera, Paris, 5 December 1968, lot 74.
P. Salmon, Neuilly-sur-Seine; sale, Sotheby’s, New York, 25 May 1984, lot 52.
Acquired at the above sale; sale, Sotheby’s, New York, 8 May 2002, lot 25.
Acquired at the above sale, and thence by descent to the present owner.



Literature

Cahier manuscrit [The artist's handlist, produced 1905], titled 'L’arc en ciel'.
G. Lévy & P. Signac, Pré-catalogue, circa 1929-1932, p. 362 (illustrated).
Connaissance des arts, Paris, no. 202, December 1968, p. 41 (illustrated).
F. Cachin, Signac, Catalogue raisonné de l'oeuvre peint, Paris, 2000, no. 425, p. 272 (illustrated).
P. Sanchez, Les expositions de la galerie Eugène Druet, répertoire des artistes exposants et liste de leurs oeuvres, 1903-1938, Dijon, 2009, no. 1911-12, p. 475.
M. Ferretti-Bocquillon, Paul Signac: Dessins et aquarelles, Collection inédite, Paris, 2001, p. 57.



Exhibited

Paris, Galerie E. Druet, Henri Edmond Cross & Paul Signac, June - July 1911, no. 12.
Christiania, Den franske utstilling i Kunstnerforbundet, November - December 1916, no. 60.
Martigny, Fondation Pierre Gianadda, P. Signac, June - November 2003, no. 44, pp. 108 & 109 (illustrated p. 109).
Zug, Kunsthaus, Das Sehen sehen, Neoimpressionismus und Moderne, Signac bis Eliasson, February - June 2008, p. 56 (illustrated).
Milan, Palazzo Reale, Seurat e Signac, October 2008 - January 2009, p. 196 (illustrated).
Martigny, Fondation Pierre Gianadda, de Renoir à Sam Szafran, Parcours d'un collectionneur, December 2010 - June 2011, no. 18, p. 50 (illustrated p. 51).
Melbourne, National Gallery of Victoria, Radiance, The Neo-Impressionists, November 2012 - March 2013, p. 116 (illustrated).
Venice, Peggy Guggenheim Collection, The Avant-Gardes of Fin-de-Siècle Paris: Signac, Bonnard, Redon, and their contemporaries, September 2013 - January 2014 (illustrated).
Lausanne, Fondation de l’Hermitage, Signac, Une vie au fil de l’eau, January - May 2016, no. 52, p. 180 (illustrated p. 93); 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. 77, p. 81.
Paris, Musée Jacquemart André, Signac, Les harmonies colorées, March - July 2021, no. 50, pp. 146 & 147 (illustrated).
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