\b0 From a well-to-do family, Paul Signac was born in Paris in 1863 and did not start to paint until he
was twenty. Going beyond the lessons of the impressionists but sharing their obsession with the rendering of light, he adopted, like Seurat, the technique of \i ôdivisionism,ö\i0 in which he used tiny strokes and dots of color to depict the landscapes
of Brittany, the banks of the Seine, and the shores of the Mediterranean. He was so seduced by the latter that he moved to \b \ATXul1024 \cf4 \ATXht90 Saint-Tropez\b0 \ATXul0 \cf0 \ATXht0 in 1911. From then on, his life as an artist was divided between
his passion for the sea - he was an excellent sailor - and his stays in the South of France and in Paris, where he died in 1935 after exercising an undoubted influence on the different artistic schools of the twentieth century.\par
