Shop art print and framed art   Au Temps d'Harmonie by Paul Signac

In the Time of Harmony is a painting by the French artist Paul Signac, completed in 1895 in Saint-Tropez. This pointillist oil painting on canvas represents the sea shore where numerous people perform different activities such as foraging, pétanque, reading, dancing, and painting. Shown at the Salon des indépendants in 1895, it has since been in the grand staircase of the Montreuil city hall in Seine-Saint-Denis. The title of the work was originally In the Time of Anarchy. It was changed by self-censorship. But the painting maintains a utopian subtitle without being overtly anarchist: "The golden age is not in the past; it is in the [...]

 

This artwork is a drawing from the modern period. It belongs to the pointillism style.

 

« Au Temps d'Harmonie » is kept at Louvre, Paris, France.

 

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