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The Arts: Still watercolours run deep Was Paul Signac's passion for colour waterered down by his choice of medium? Michael Glover finds a new exhibition of his work anything but a wash-out
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NOT EVERYTHING can go right. At the foot of one of the 40 or so
works on paper by Paul Signac currently on show at the Courtauld
Galleries, there is a tiny, scribbled homage which reads as follows:
"cette pauvre priere a notre Dieu Turner".
The watercolour itself is a fairly poor copy, perhaps done from
memory in the aftermath of a visit to London in 1909, of a painting
by Turner of the Salute church in Venice. Various things have gone
badly wrong: that baroque masterpiece of a dome has had its neck
painfully stretched; the palazzi at the opening of the Grand Canal
look far too stolid for ...
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