# Still-Life with a Book [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [SIGNAC, Paul]() - Date: 1851-1900 - Technique: Oil on canvas, 33 x 47 cm ## Commentary Signac's Still-Life with a Book is close in colour and content to those by Vincent van Gogh, so many of whose still-lifes included a Bible or <a onclick="return OpenOther\('/html/g/gogh\_van/05/still08.html'\)" href="/html/g/gogh\_van/05/still08.html">other text.</a> In the present painting, the book is Guy de Maupassant's Au Soleil, a collection of travel sketches published in 1881. ## Related artworks - [Boulevard de Clichy under Snow]() - [Breakfast \(The Dining Room\)]() - [Evening Calm, Concarneau, Opus 220 \(Allegro Maestoso\)]() - [Gasometers at Clichy]() - [Les Andelys, Riverbank]() - [Outskirrts of Paris: the Road to Gennevilliers]() - [Pine Tree at Saint-Tropez]() - [Portrait of Félix Fénéon]() - [Rue Caulaincourt: Mills on Montmartre]() - [Saint-Tropez, the Harbour]() - [Saint-Tropez, the Storm]() - [Setting Sun, Sardine Fishing, Concarneau, op. 221 \(Adagio\)]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()