Paul Signac (1863 - Paris - 1935) - Venise, San Giorgio et la Salute. Watercolor over pencil on chamois-colored wove paper, mounted on firm wove paper. (Circa 1904). Approx. 20 x 25 cm (wove paper approx. 36.5 x 43 cm). Signed lower left and inscribed "18(?)" lower right. With a photographic expertise by Marina Ferretti, Paris, dated 29.4.2021. Venice exerted a special fascination on Paul Signac. This interest was heightened by his reading of John Ruskin's work on Venetian art and architecture, "The Stones of Venice". Ruskin's writings were very much in vogue at the turn of the century and Signac shared many of Ruskin's social and aesthetic ideas. His stay in Venice in 1904 proved to be extremely fruitful - in just one month he produced over two hundred watercolor sketches. He often numbered his watercolors. The present sheet bears the remains of a number in the lower right corner ("18..."). Like Turner, Signac left behind a visual diary, as it were, in which he tirelessly recorded his impressions of the Venetian light, atmosphere and colors in drawings and watercolor sketches. Provenance: Rudolf Tewes Collection (1879-1965), Bremen; Private collection, Caracas, acquired from the aforementioned in the 1950s; Private collection, Bavaria, through succession to the present owner. Taxation: differential taxation (VAT: Margin Scheme).