{"data":{"id":122130,"api_model":"artworks","api_link":"https:\/\/api.artic.edu\/api\/v1\/artworks\/122130","is_boosted":false,"title":"Les Andelys, C\u00f4te d'Aval","alt_titles":null,"thumbnail":{"lqip":"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhCAAFAPUAAFFXSIZxSod9VJmLX4qKdoaFepiRcZaRe5WRfKGSaqiVa6aTcq6bfa6geLmnepqZgpSVk5KcnqWbhKighbqrjJaqtZivv7i1qLi2rre\/vd7NrdfLst\/SturRqO7ZsPHas83a19Xe2c7f4Nzm4d3n4+Tr4+Dq5OPr5AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAACH5BAAAAAAALAAAAAAIAAUAAAYlQBEoNCKZTiXBQJFwNCYGAOGBODAWgUoEYslwPJ2ChKL5bDCXIAA7","width":3000,"height":1960,"alt_text":"A work made of oil on canvas."},"main_reference_number":"1993.208","has_not_been_viewed_much":false,"boost_rank":null,"date_start":1886,"date_end":1886,"date_display":"1886","date_qualifier_title":"","date_qualifier_id":null,"artist_display":"Paul Signac (French, 1863-1935)","place_of_origin":"France","description":"<p>This view of the harbor of Les Andelys, a village on the Seine River near Giverny, France, is part of Paul Signac\u2019s first series of works painted in dots and dashes of contrasting colors. The technique, called pointillism, was originated by Signac\u2019s friend <a href=\"https:\/\/www.artic.edu\/artists\/40810\/georges-seurat\">Georges Seurat<\/a>. Signac would prove to be the most ardent proponent of this style, which he made his own through particular attention to geometric form. Here, for example, a triangular patch of blue creates a curve in the river, while an expanse of trapezoids in the background defines the cultivated hill.<\/p>\n","short_description":"This harbor view is one of Paul Signac\u2019s first works painted in dots and dashes of contrasting colors. The technique, called pointillism, was originated by Signac\u2019s friend Georges Seurat. Signac would prove to be the most ardent proponent of this style, which he made his own through particular attention to geometric form.","dimensions":"60 \u00d7 92 cm (23 5\/8 \u00d7 36 1\/4 in.); Framed: 77.5 \u00d7 109.6 \u00d7 6.4 cm (30 1\/2 \u00d7 43 1\/8 \u00d7 2 1\/2 in.)","dimensions_detail":[{"depth":null,"width":92,"height":60,"diameter":null,"clarification":null},{"depth":6,"width":109,"height":77,"diameter":null,"clarification":"Framed"}],"medium_display":"Oil on canvas","inscriptions":"Inscribed lower right: P. Signac. 86","credit_line":"Through prior gift of William Wood Prince","catalogue_display":null,"publication_history":"Soci\u00e9t\u00e9 des Artistes Ind\u00e9pendants, Catalogue des \u0153uvres expos\u00e9es, exh. cat. (1887), 23 cat. 452.\n\n[Paul Alexis] Trublot, \u201c\u00c0 minuit. Exposition des artistes ind\u00e9pendants,\u201d Le Cri du peuple, Mar. 26, 1887, 3.\n\nMarcel Fouquier, \u201cL\u2019Exposition des artistes ind\u00e9pendants,\u201d Le XIX\u00e8me si\u00e8cle, Mar. 28, 1887, 2.\n\nF\u00e9lix Fen\u00e9on, \u201cL\u2019Impressionisme,\u201d L'\u00c9mancipation sociale, Apr. 3, 1887; reproduced in Joan Halperin, ed., F\u00e9lix F\u00e9n\u00e9on: Oeuvres plus que compl\u00e8tes vol. 1-2 (Geneve: Droz, 1970), 67.\n\nF\u00e9lix Fen\u00e9on, \u201cLe Neo-Impressionisme,\u201d  L' Art Moderne, Brussels, May 1, 1887, 140; reproduced in Joan Halperin, ed., F\u00e9lix F\u00e9n\u00e9on: Oeuvres plus que compl\u00e8tes vol. 1-2 (Geneve: Droz, 1970), 75-76.\n\nGustave Kahn, \u201cLa Vie Artistique,\u201d La Vie moderne, Apr. 9, 1887, 230.\n\nJean Le Fustec, \u201cExposition des artistes ind\u00e9pendants,\u201d Journal des artistes, Apr. 10, 1887, 108.\n\nJules Christophe, \u201cLes \u00e9volutionnistes du pavillon de la Ville de Paris,\u201d Journal des artistes, Apr. 24, 1887,  123.\n\nJ.K. Huysmans, \u201cChronique d\u2019art: Les Ind\u00e9pendants,\u201d La Revue ind\u00e9pendante (April 1887): 55.\n\nGabrielle Vienne, P. Signac, exh. cat. (Paris : Editions des musees nationaux), 12 cat. 8.\n\nLes impressionnistes fran\u00e7ais de C\u00e9zanne \u00e0 Renoir, exh. cat. (Marseille: Mus\u00e9e Cantini, 1955), 25 cat. 40.\n\nVan Gogh a Paris, exh. cat. (Paris: Mus\u00e9e d\u2019Orsay, 1988), 258 under no. 98, fig. b.\n\nH\u00f4tel Drouot, Paris, Importants Tableaux et Sculptures Modernes, June 21, 1993, cover ill., lot 28.\n\n\u201cNew Acquisition,\u201d News and Events The Art Institute of Chicago (Jan.-Feb. 1994): 2 (ill.).\n\nGloria Groom, \u201cAcquisitions in focus: The Art Institute of Chicago,\u201d Apollo 142, no. 406 (1995): 59-61, fig. 1.\n\nFran\u00e7oise Cachin, Signac: Catalogue raisonn\u00e9 de l\u2019\u0153uvre peint (Paris: Gallimard, 2000), 93 (ill.), 176, no. 125 (ill.).\n\nImpressionism and Post-Impressionism in the Art Institute of Chicago (New York: Hudson Hills Press, 2000), 122 (ill.).\n\nMarina Ferreti-Bocquillon, et. al., Signac, 1863-1935, exh. cat. (London and New Haven: Yale University Press, 2001), 122-23 cat. 22 as Hillside from Downstream, Andeleys [French ed. (Paris: Cercle d'art, 2001), 162-163 cat. 22 (ill.)].\n\nFrancoise Cachin and Marina Ferreti-Bocquillon, P. Signac, exh. cat. (Martigny, Switzerland: Fondation Pierre Gianadda, 2003), 32-33 cat. 6 (ill.).\n\nRobert L. Herbert, Seurat and the Making of \u2018La Grande Jatte,\u2019 exh. cat., (), 134, 140 cat. 118 as Hillside from Downstream, Andeleys, 277.\n\nRichard R. Brettell and Stephen F. Eisenman, Nineteenth-Century Art in the Norton Simon Museum vol. 1 (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2006), 449-50 fig. 119a.\n\nThe Age of Impressionism at the Art Institute of Chicago, exh. cat. (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2008), 114-15 (ill.), cat. 52.","exhibition_history":"Paris, Th\u00e9\u00e2tre Libre d\u2019Antoine, Sep. 1887, no cat.\n\nParis, Soci\u00e9t\u00e9 des Artistes Ind\u00e9pendants, 3e Exposition, Mar. 26-May 3, 1887, cat. 452\n\nParis, Mus\u00e9e national d\u2019art moderne, P. 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