Vaison 1933

“Vaison” was made by Paul Signac using watercolor and pencil. The color in this artwork emerges from the light. It's like Signac poured out all of his impressions of the square at Vaison onto the page. I love that he captured this somewhere in France around 1932, you can almost smell the South of France. I can imagine Signac standing there, with his watercolor box, thinking about how to capture the light reflecting on the buildings. Signac was good friends with Paul Klee and this work reminds me a little of Klee. There’s a lovely looseness to his marks. See the clock tower? You can feel him thinking about how to capture the light. It makes me want to go back to that square, set up my easel and paint with him. What about you?