Signac P. 1896. Lithograph. Museum of Modern Art, New York. (Source: Shikes, R. E., 1969, The Indignant Eye: The Artist as Social Critic in Prints and Drawings from the Fifteenth Century to Picasso, Beacon Press, Boston).

Les Demolisseurs

According to Shikes, French artist Paul Signac occasionally gave drawings to anarchist papers but sought to avoid making overt propaganda statements. The symbolism in this work is ambiguous.(p 216)