Edam Windmill ☴ Signac ☷ Canvas architecture Van Gogh regarded this work

Van Gogh regarded this work as one of his best summer paintings

Some of the character details include a woman with a pet monkey on a leash

The central panel and main subject

bold silhouettes

Edam Windmill ☴ Signac ☷ Canvas architecture Van Gogh regarded this workEdam Windmill (1896, Moulin d'Edam) by Paul Signac depicts a windmill towering above the flat Dutch countryside. Signac was exploring a looser, more rectangular brushstroke similar to a mosaic, as opposed to the precise dots common in pointillism. Here with dense layers of rhythmic, overlapping brushwork, each stroke is set at a particular angle to achieve a criss cross effect in the sky, and halo effect around the sun. This windmill may have been