Port of Saint-Cast – (Paul Signac) Previous Next


Artist:

Style: Post-Impressionism

Topic: Saints

Date: 1890

Size: 82 x 66 cm

Museum: Museum of Fine Arts (Boston, United States)

Technique: Oil On Canvas

Signac was a leading practitioner of the Neo-Impressionist style originated by Georges Seurat, which abandoned the free brushwork of Impressionism in favor of a systematic application of tiny, distinct touches of pure color. Port of Saint-Cast is one of a series of four seascapes that Signac painted along the Brittany coast. The composition is spare and carefully balanced, with the stillness created by Signac's painstaking method enlivened by vibrant color and light. The idea of working in series may have come from Claude Monet, who had begun his paintings of the Creuse Valley several years earlier.

This artwork is in the public domain.

Artist

Download

Click here to download

Permissions

Free for non commercial use. See below.

Paul Signac – Most viewed artworks

Public domain

This image (or other media file) is in the public domain because its copyright has expired. However - you may not use this image for commercial purposes and you may not alter the image or remove the watermark.

This applies to the United States, Canada, the European Union and those countries with a copyright term of life of the author plus 70 years.


Note that a few countries have copyright terms longer than 70 years: Mexico has 100 years, Colombia has 80 years, and Guatemala and Samoa have 75 years. This image may not be in the public domain in these countries, which moreover do not implement the rule of the shorter term. Côte d'Ivoire has a general copyright term of 99 years and Honduras has 75 years, but they do implement that rule of the shorter term.