PAUL SIGNAC. 1863-1935

204 SPRING IN PROVENCE. 1903

Oil on canvas mounted on cardboard. 26.5 X 35 cm. Inv. No 3419

Signed and dated lower left: P. Signac. 03 This picture is also known as A Cottage and is close to Almond Trees in Blossom, in the G. Signac Collection. M. J. Chartrain-Hebbelinck points out that the Moscow canvas, under the title A Cottage at Saint-Tropez, was included in the exhibition The Interpretation of the South in Brussels in 1913. Provenance: 1906—18 The I. Morozov Collection, Moscow; 1918—48 The Museum of Modern Western Art, Moscow; since 1948 The Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow

Exhibitions: 1906 Paris (Salon des Independents); 1913 Brussels; 1939 Moscow, Cat. 78; 1960 Moscow, Cat., p. 35

Bibliography: Маковский 1912, p. 23; Кат. ГМНЗИ 1928, No 576; Reau 1929, No 1102; M. J. Chartrain-Hebbelinck, "Les Lettres de Paul Signac a Octave Maus", Bulletin des Musees Royaux des Beaux-Arts de Belgique, 1969, 1—2, p. 93, ill. 20

204 SPRING IN PROVENCE. 1903

205 THE PINE TREE. SAINT-TROPEZ. 1909

Oil on canvas. 72 X 92 cm. Inv. No 3341 Signed and dated lower right in green paint: P. Signac 1909

During 1907—9 Signac often turned to this motif. A slightly different landscape, The Bay, was painted in 1907. There are two watercolors and pencil sketches of Le Pin Bertaud in private collections in Paris. Provenance: 1913—18 The S. Shchukin Collection, Moscow; 1918—48 The Museum of Modern Western Art, Moscow; since 1948 The Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow

Exhibitions: 1910 Paris (Salon des Independents), Cat. 4753; 1939 Moscow, Cat., p. 52; 1960 Moscow, Cat., p. 35

Bibliography: Кат. ГМИИ 1957, p. 129; Кат. ГМИИ 1961, p. 170; Кат. собр. С.Щукина 1913, No 212, pp. 48—49; Тугендхольд 1914, p. 46; Перцов 1921, No 212, p. 115; Кат. ГМНЗИ 1928, No 575; Reau 1929, No 1101; Прокофьев 1962, ill. 169; M. J. Char-train-Hebbelinck, "Les Lettres de Paul Signac a Octave Maus", Bulletin des Musees Royaux des Beaux-Arts de Belgique, 1969, 1—2, p. 87, ill. 16 (entitled Le Pin Bertaud — Saint- Tropez)

205 THE PINE TREE. SAINT-TROPEZ. 1909