Paul Signac Biography
also known as:  Paul Victor Jules Signac
He was a French Neo-Impressionist painter who, with Georges Seurat, helped develop the artistic technique Pointillism.

The Mediterranean coast is a major theme across Signac's paintings.
He purchased a house in the south of France in the village of Collioure or at St. Tropez where is invited his friends to visit.
Signac loved sailing and began to travel in 1892, sailing a small boat to almost all the ports of France.
As president of the Société des Artistes Indépendants, from 1908 until his death, Signac encouraged younger artists by exhibiting the controversial works of the Fauves and the Cubists. He was the first patron to buy a painting by Matisse.