Signac Entrance to the Grand Canal, Venice Print

Paul Signac belonged to a small circle of artists known as the Neo-Impressionists, who sought a more scientific process for painting. Drawing from optics and colour theory, they explored how the human eye perceives hue, embracing a technique of applying paint in small dots of pure pigment that, from a distance, merge to become a coherent image.

Compared to his peers, Signac preferred broader dabs of paint in rectangular shapes, inspired by the mosaics he had seen during his travels to Venice and Istanbul. In Entrance to the Grand Canal, Venice, 1905, he carefully applied shimmering tones of purple, yellow, blue and green directly onto a white background, slowly building up the composition.

Entrance to the Grand Canal, Venice 1905

20.9 x 16.6cm (image only)
27.8 x 35.2 x 0.1cm (including white matting)
made in New Zealand

Unframed prints can be shipped both nationally and internationally, framed prints are only available to be shipped within Aotearoa, New Zealand.