Paul Signac, famous French landscape painter of the 19th and 20th centuries, is an active member of Pointillism and a pioneer of Divisionism.

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As early as 1880, Signac set up his studio in Montmartre, where he discovered the Impressionists. He exhibited for the first time at the Salon des Independants in 1884, during which time he co-founded the Société des Artistes Independants, of which he became president in 1908. With Georges Seurat, Signac played an essential role in the development of pointillism, a neo-impressionist technique that allows the separation and balance of the elements of the canvas through an optical mixture of pigments. This artistic innovation proved to be fundamental for future Fauvism, a movement led by Henri Matisse and André Derain.

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An insatiable traveller and lover of the sea, Signac explored the ports of France in the 1930s in order to paint an exceptional series of watercolors. He devoted the last fifteen years of his life to this technique, which he particularly mastered. At the same time, he left Brittany for Saint-Tropez, which contributed to a more colorful and luminous style.

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He is now one of the most appreciated and collected French artists in the world, especially in Germany, the United States and Japan. Major exhibitions have been devoted to his work, such as Signac. The ports of France at the André Malraux Museum of Modern Art in Le Havre in 2010, and Signac collector at the Orsay Museum in Paris in 2021.