Pont Mirabeau

Pont Mirabeau (1903) shows Signac applying his mature post-divisionist mosaic technique — now using large, square colour patches — to a celebrated Parisian bridge over the Seine, a subject later immortalised in Apollinaire's famous poem. By 1903 Signac had been president of the Société des Artistes Indépendants for several years and was the leading theorist of Neo-Impressionism following Seurat's death. His choice of the Pont Mirabeau over the Seine in the western quartiers confirms his continuing commitment to Parisian waterways. Tel Aviv Museum of Art.

The bridge and its reflection are built from mosaic-like square strokes of strongly contrasted hues — blues, oranges, greens — arranged in a regular pattern that has evolved from Seurat's round dots towards a more angular, tile-like surface. The Seine's reflections dissolve architecture into colour fields.