Signac, an avid sailor, is best known for his lively images of French ports and glowing seascapes. This painting from 1925 shows one of the two lighthouses marking the port of Port-Tudy on the Île-de-Groix, a small island off the coast of Brittany in northern France. A guide from that time noted that the city's " multicoloured tuna boats, with long shipyard arms such as antennas, were used for fishing;. The wide, regular shades of colour, especially visible in the sky and water, were a hallmark of Signac's late style.
