Boats at Flessingue

Paul Signac

1895

A color lithograph in which Paul Signac adapts his pointillist, divisionist method to capture the shimmering light and atmosphere of a harbor at Flessingue.

You notice first a soft, luminous palette of pastel yellows and blues and a surface made of tiny, hatched and stippled marks so that boats, piers, and water seem to vibrate with reflected light.

Signac’s print demonstrates how Neo‑Impressionist color theory could be translated into printmaking, extending the movement’s optical experiments beyond painting and influencing modern approaches to color reproduction.

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Art Terms

Neo-Impressionism Post-Impressionism Lithography Print Landscape

Exhibitions

Color Reproductions: Modern Watercolors and Pastels

1934

French Paintings from the Molyneux Collection

1952

The Lillie P. Bliss Collection, 1934

1934

Memorial Exhibition: The Collection of the Late Lillie P. Bliss

1931