"Signac and the Independants" by Gilles Genty

Signac and the Independants Gilles Genty, Mary-Dailey Desmarais, Nathalie Bondil, Charlotte Hellman, Claire Denis, Phillip Dennis Cate, Belinda Thomson, Marina Ferretti Bocquillon, Richard Thomson, Nicole Tamburini, Jean-David Jumeau-Lafond, Katia Poletti, Veronique Serrano, Mark Antliff, Patricia Leighten

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Format:: Hardback
Publication date:: 28 Jan 2020
ISBN:: 9780300251982
Imprint:: Editions Hazan, Paris
Dimensions:: 382 pages: 279 x 241mm
Illustrations:: 550 b-w + color illus.
Sales territories:: World

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In Paris at the turn of the 20th century, an artistic revolution was underway. The Salon des Indépendants was organized in 1884 by a group of artists and thinkers that included Albert Dubois-Pillet, Odilon Redon, Georges Seurat, and Paul Signac, who was the organization's president from 1908 to his death in 1935. They chose as their slogan “neither jury nor reward” (ni jury ni récompenses), and for the following three decades their annual exhibitions set new trends that profoundly changed the course of Western art. This beautifully illustrated volume features paintings and graphic works by an impressive range of artists who exhibited at these avant-garde gatherings where Impressionists (Monet and Morisot), Fauves (Dury, Freisz, and Marquet), Symbolists (Gauguin, Mucha, and Redon), Nabis (Bonnard, Denis, and Lacombe), and Neo-Impressionists (Cross, Pisarro, and Seurat) all came together.

Gilles Genty is an independent art historian, curator, and collector who has co-curated several international exhibitions on the Nabis and the Post-Impressionists. Mary-Dailey Desmarais is curator of international modern art at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts.

Montreal Museum of Fine Arts
(February 1–June 7, 2020)