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...addition, portraits such as L'Enfant Madeline betray a vestigial debt to Renoir's child portraits, while the pointillistic detail and balanced composition of Vue de Chatou suggest more than a few hours spent in the galleries studying the neo-impressionist work of Seurat and Signac...
...when it goes on the block next month. Another newly discovered Rubens, an oil sketch for his Samson and Delilah, will join it for an estimated $140,000. Henry Ford II will take profits on Christie's block in December by selling off four works by Matisse, Signac, Vuillard and Picasso for upwards...
...earliest antecedents of this breakdown of the spatial illusion in painting are the pointillist pictures of the late nineteenth century -- particularly Seurat and Signac. They tried to break down the illusion of space by treating the frame with the same minute dots of color which cover the background of the pointillist canvas. As a result, the frame fuses with the canvas, giving the impression of no frame...
POINTILLIST PAINTINGS-Hirschl & Adler, 21 East 67th. More than 60 works by 19 exponents of the neo-impressionist technique that built up form through the juxtaposition of tiny stippled dots of brightly contrasting colors. Among the masters of the school: Georges Seurat, Paul Signac, Lucie Cousturier, Henri-Edmond Cross, Hippolyte Petitjean, Camille and Lucien Pissarro. Through...
...especially rewarding Picasso that cost just $45,000 three years ago, was bought by Kirkeby only last year for a whopping $185,000. His loss on that canvas was more than compensated by record-breaking prices for a golden clutch of modern favorites: Modigliani, Rouault. Bonnard. Vlaminck, Signac, Morisot. Pissaro and Segonzac. The whole thing had the fever of a poker game, with the blue chips in the hands of professional gamblers...