The Port Of Rotterdam

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The Port Of Rotterdam

Artist

Eric Glaser

Medium

Painting - Oil On Canvas

Description

"The Port of Rotterdam"

Artist: Paul Signac (French, 1863-1935)

Title: The Port of Rotterdam

Object Type: Painting

Date: 1907

Medium: Oil on Canvas

Dimensions: Height: 87 cm (34.2 in); Width: 114 cm (44.8 in)

Collection: Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam, Netherlands

Current Location: Room 26

Painting History:

1925: lent to the Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam
1952: given to Stichting Museum Boymans, today Stichting Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen by Dr. Dirk Hannema (1896-1984)
1952: lent to the Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam, by Stichting Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen

Exhibition History:

Impressionism. Through clear eyes. The movement and its precursors, Museum Boymans-van Beuningen, Rotterdam, 19 September 1992–29 November 1992, ISBN 9789069181028.
The collection enriched, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam, 16 April 2011–30 April 2013, no catalog.

Inscriptions: Signature and date bottom left: P. Signac 1907

Paul Victor Jules Signac was a French Neo-Impressionist painter who, working with Georges Seurat, helped develop the Pointillist style.

In 1906 Signac visited the port of Rotterdam and was greatly impressed. On a postcard with a harbour scene he wrote: 'From my window! What industriousness! I am enthusiastic, but amazed.' He made this painting the following year based on a drawing, which is also in the collection of Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen. The combination of the individual dabs of paint creates shimmering light effects.

This is a Google Art Project image, thank you Google!

Text Credit: Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen

Image Credit: Wikimedia Commons

Additional image editing by Eric Glaser

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