2-739-613 - Heritage Art/Heritage Images

Saint-Tropez, 1897. This is a brilliant impression of Luce's most important colour lithograph, which exemplifies the ideas of his close friend and fellow artist Paul Signac (1863-1935): that optical effects of colour are achieved by the juxtaposition of touches of pure pigment. In his paintings, Luce used brushstrokes rather than the pointillist dots of colour favored by painters such as Georges Seurat (1859-1891). When using lithography Luce placed dashes of different colours side by side so that they would interact, achieving a rich glow of colour.