Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. In a psychedelic portrait by Paul Signac, the art world mandarin and probable terrorist Félix Fénéon appears to ...

On “Félix Fénéon: The Anarchist and the Avant Garde—from Signac to Matisse and Beyond” at the Museum of Modern Art, New York. That the show is wide-ranging, unpredictable, and thought-provoking is ...

Félix Fénéon (1861-1944) was a dealer, writer, tastemaker, collector, likely a bomb-maker, and surely the most passionate promoter of Seurat, Signac, Matisse and Bonnard. He was also a trailblazing ...

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Paul Signac's painting Against the Enamel of a Background Rhythmic with Beats and Angles, Tones and Colours, Portrait of M. Félix Fénéon in 1890 is a manifesto for a new art and a new world. Its ...

In 1890, the neo-Impressionist Paul Signac offered to paint Félix Fénéon, the very coiner, four years previously, of the term ‘neo-Impressionist’. The critic-subject responded with modest evasiveness, ...

A long-overdue retrospective celebrates the most overlooked of the Neo-Impressionists, an artist known for his unsparing brushwork and strong political convictions. An anarchic desire to undermine the ...