Symphony of Colors: Paul Signac and Neo-Impressionism

Wildenstein Plattner Institute

Wildenstein Plattner Institute

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This exhibition brings together approximately 100 works that encompass the development of Neo-Impressionism, its adherents’ new approaches to color, their anarchist convictions, and the movement’s larger influence outside of France. Paul Signac’s works are displayed alongside several fellow Neo-Impressionists, including Georges Seurat, Camille Pissarro, Théo van Rysselberghe, Alfred William Finch, Jan Toorop, and women artists Anna Boch, Lucie Cousturier, and Jeanne Selmersheim-Desgrange, whose importance to the movement has been widely overlooked.

Peter Eurlings guides us through the galleries with exhibition curators Charlotte Cachin (head of the Signac Archives in Paris) and Marina Ferretti Bocquillon, former Director of Research and Scientific Affairs at the Musée des impressionnismes Giverny and head of the Signac Archives (1981–2012). This is an unmissable opportunity to take a closer look at several significant paintings and situate Neo-Impressionism within its larger historical and political landscape.