ID 1177496
Lot 10 | Albert Marquet (1875-1947)
Estimate value
€ 200 000 – 300 000
Le Pont-Neuf
signé ‘marquet’ (en bas à gauche)
huile sur toile
53.5 x 64.7 cm.
Peint vers 1937
signed ‘marquet’ (lower left)
oil on canvas
21 x 25 1⁄2 in.
Painted circa 1937
Provenance
Galerie de l'Elysée (Alex Maguy), Paris.
Galerie Moos, Genève (acquis auprès de celle-ci en 1937 et jusqu'à au moins 1939).
Knoedler Gallery, New York (acquis auprès de celle-ci).
Collection particulière, New York (acquis auprès de celle-ci probablement en 1942).
Collection Coster-Gerard, New York (don de celle-ci).
Puis par succession au propriétaire actuel.
Exhibited
Genève, Galerie Moos, Exposition d'art français, juin-juillet 1939, p. 12, no. 40 (illustré).
Further details
Paradoxically, Albert Marquet is known both as a painter of exotic views as experienced on his travels, and as a narrator of the view from his own Parisian window. In the present painting, Le Pont-Neuf, he expresses himself as a native of that city, depicting the cityscape of which he was so fond. Characteristically, Marquet has adopted a plunging view of the famous bridge, as seen from his studio but also depicted with a certain sense of remoteness. As the Impressionists before him, who had repeatedly returned to the same subject in order to capture the light at varying times of day, Marquet devoted himself to several preferred views - the port of Algiers, Notre Dame, or Saint Hilaire - and in these his focus became depicting any changes in the weather or the effects of sunlight.
Whilst artists such as André Derain and Maurice de Vlaminck painted the same view with colors little based in reality, Marquet's palette allowed for intermittent explosions of color but retain a firmer grounding in the view before him. In the present painting, that view is of the Pont-Neuf, the oldest bridge across the Seine, and belongs to the artist's 'Paris Suite' series; he found his inspiration in the river Seine, its quais, bridges and crowds, whether in sunshine, rain, summer or winter, and it was against this paradoxically familiar and traditional background that he executed the most innovative works in his oeuvre.
Artist: | Albert Marquet (1875 - 1947) |
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Auction house category: | Paintings, Watercolors, Drawings, Paintings |
Artist: | Albert Marquet (1875 - 1947) |
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Auction house category: | Paintings, Watercolors, Drawings, Paintings |
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