Paul Signac

Having received only minimal artistic training, Signac taught himself the basics of composition and colour theory after leaving school at 16 in 1880. He had already studied and imitated the style of the Impressionists before he met George Seurat, the forerunner of Divisionism, in 1884. As the champion of Neo-Impressionism, Seurat jealously guarded his status, claiming that he was the original and Signac the imitator. Signac, who published his study From Eugène Delacroix to Neo-Impressionism in 1898, claimed that to some extent he had influenced Seurat. All things considered, Signac learned a great deal from Seurat and was deeply affected when Seurat died in 1891, probably of tuberculosis, at the age of 31.

From the page of Portrait of Felix Feneon against the Enamel of a Background Rhythmic with Beats and Angles, Tones and Tints