In the collection of Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia — check current display status with the museum.
FROM THE BARNES FOUNDATION’S CATALOG
Signac shows a view of Geneva from its lake, spotlighting the lofty cathedral spires and offsetting violet walls of buildings and mountains against the pale yellow sky. Signac's painting technique separates colors according to rules of optical contrast. This technique was meant to echo the structures of material reality and of Gothic engineering. The Gothic element further expresses the artist's sociopolitical ideals: he and his peers believed that Gothic cities had been near-communist utopias of moral and social harmony and hoped that their paintings would inspire viewers to the same values.
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Willem Hekking jr. — Gezicht op de Nieuwe Brug
anonymous — Gezicht op de Prins Hendrikkade met de façade va
anonymous — Prins Hendrikkade
James McNeill Whistler — The Pantheon, from the Terrace of t
Francis Seymour Haden (British, 1818–1910) — Old Chelsea Chu
Charles Meryon — The Apse of Notre-Dame, Paris
Charles Meryon — Pont-au-change, Paris
James McNeill Whistler|Thomas Robert Way — The Savoy Pigeons
James McNeill Whistler — Savoy Pigeons
Anthonie van Teijn — Gezicht op de Schreiershoek
anonymous — Gezicht langs de Singelgracht
John Ruskin — Lauffenburg on the Rhine
