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Paul Signac was a French landscape artist who invented the pointillist painting technique along with Seurat.

When in April 1929 he undertook his tour of French ports, Paul Signac was undeniably following a long French painting tradition. After Claude Gellé, Joseph Vernet, Corot and Turner, who experimented with him, Signac is the one who viewed ports he visited in the most unrestricted manner, thanks to the technique used i.e. watercolour which enabled him

“to avoid fixing sensations”.

This exhibition, bringing together again one hundred watercolours featuring ports painted by Signac for the first time in France, is above all an important opportunity to pay homage to the last painter of a long tradition.

This exhibition will be the first time that it will be possible to enjoy not only this series of watercolours showing views of ports painted by Signac prior to and after his journey, but above all to compare these works of art with those painted of views of ports before him by the main artists (such as Corot, Turner, Boudin etc…) loaned to the museum especially for this exhibition by major museums in France and abroad.