# Saint-Tropez: The Port

- By: Paul Signac (French, 1863–1935)
- Date: 1897–98
- Medium: color lithograph
- Classification: Print
- Dimensions: Image: 43.5 x 33 cm (17 1/8 x 13 in.); Sheet: 50.8 x 38.2 cm (20 x 15 1/16 in.)
- Culture: France, 20th century
- Credit line: Gift of The Print Club of Cleveland in memory of William J. Eastman
- Museum: [Cleveland Museum of Art](https://clevelandart.org/art/1953.346)
- Rights: [Public domain (CC0)](https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)
- Picture: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1953.346/1953.346_web.jpg
- Who can see it: Tweens profiles and older (museums give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the museum's own words)

Signac adapted for the lithographic process the style he and George Seurat (1859-1891) developed in the 1880s for painting: pointillism. Brilliantly colored dots were juxtaposed to produce a full optical tonal range more luminous than can be obtained from pigments mixed on the palette. Saint-Tropez, printed in six colors (blue, blue-gray, red, pink, yellow, and green), demonstrates that lithography was a perfect vehicle for translating these artists' scientific ideas about color.