Le Pouliguen: Fishing Boats

• Paul Signac (1863–1935)
• 1928
• Black crayon and watercolor
• Robert Lehman Collection, 1975
• (1975.1.718)

Paul Signac, an avid sailor, often painted sailboats like those moored here in the harbor of Le Pouliguen, a small town on France’s Atlantic coast that became a fashionable resort in the mid-nineteenth century. Above the masts, the spire of a Gothic church rises sharply into the sky, while the brightly colored sails—red, yellow, blue, and green—cast vivid reflections across the water.