Who painted “Port de Marseilles”?

“Port de Marseilles” was painted by Paul Signac in 1907. Where to see it: Hermitage Museum.

What to look for

Neo-Impressionism: look closely: a surface made of regular dots or small square strokes, with stiff, deliberate figures; Impressionist strokes are looser and less systematic.

Paul Victor Jules Signac (11 November 1863 – 15 August 1935) was a French Neo-Impressionist painter who, with Georges Seurat, helped develop the artistic technique Pointillism. Wikipedia

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More by Paul Signac

“The Pine Tree at Saint Tropez”, 1909
“Port of La Rochelle”, 1915
“Au temps d'harmonie”, 1895
“Venice, Grand Canal”, 1905
“Capo di Noli, near Genoa”, 1898
“Le Sentier des Douanes”, 1905
“Les Démolisseurs”, 1896
“Women by the Well”, 1892