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PAUL SIGNAC (after) Le Port de la Rochelle.
Color aquatint, 1928. 460x600 mm; 18 1/8x23 3/4 inches, full margins. One of 10 numbered artist's proofs, aside from the edition of 200. Signed by Signac, inscribed "epreuve d'artiste" and numbered 8/10 in pencil, lower margin. Etched by Jacques Villon, Paris. Published by Galerie Bernheim-Jeune, Paris. A very good with strong colors.
An avid sailor, Signac (1863-1935) started traveling by a small boat he owned in 1892 into the early 1900s to almost all the ports of France, to the Netherlands and around the Mediterranean as far as Constantinople. He made numerous watercolor studies and oils of these ports, notably St. Tropez, where he based his boat, and La Rochelle, a port in south western France, all in his characteristic pointillist style. His most famous oil titled La Rochelle, done in 1921 and similar to this color aquatint, is now in the Musée d'Orsay, Paris. Ginestet/Pouillon 644 (Villon).
