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About this work

You see a dark, inky river with two tugboats chugging under a low bridge. Signac made this print late in life, when he’d swapped brushes for needles. The tiny cross-hatched lines—like pencil shading but etched into metal—build up light and shadow without a single smooth stroke. It’s quiet work, almost like a sketch you’d do on a café napkin. Look up the technique of aquatint next.