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Albert Marquet (1875-1947)

Lot 135
10.04.2024 14:00UTC +01:00
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ID 1178566
Lot 135 | Albert Marquet (1875-1947)
Estimate value
€ 180 000 – 250 000
Albert Marquet (1875-1947)

Paris, Quai de Conti

signé 'marquet' (en bas à droite)

huile sur toile

61.3 x 50 cm.

Peint vers 1938



signed 'marquet' (lower right)

24 1⁄8 x 19 5⁄8 in.

Painted circa 1938





Provenance

Wendy et Emery Reves Foundation, France (vers les années 1960).

Puis par descendance au propriétaire actuel.



Further details

« Marquet, peintre du temps suspendu », le titre de l’exposition monographique au Musée d’Art Moderne de Paris en 2016 semble faire écho à l’ambiance qui se dégage de Paris, Quai de Conti. Paris, la Seine et ses ponts constituent pour Albert Marquet le motif d’infinies variations. Le peintre les immortalise dans des séries puissantes, tantôt sous la neige, tantôt dans la brume comme ici. Comme à son habitude Marquet construit le tableau à partir de lignes de forces simples, comme la diagonale du quai qui définit toute la toile et s’impose à l’œil du spectateur. Matisse écrit « Marquet n'avait pas de quoi s'acheter des couleurs, surtout des cadmiums qui étaient d'un prix élevé. Aussi peignait-il gris, et peut-être cette condition de la vie matérielle favorisa-t-elle sa manière ». Ce n'est pas la fulgurance de la couleur telle qu'on la rencontre dans l'œuvre de Matisse ou Derain qui fait de Marquet un peintre fauve mais cette simplification de la forme traitée par grands aplats de couleurs sourdes, en demi-teintes.

“Marquet, painter of suspended time”, the title of the monographic exhibition at the Musée d’Art Moderne in Paris in 2016 seems to echo the atmosphere of ‘Paris, Quai de Conti’. For Albert Marquet, Paris, the Seine and its bridges are the motif of infinite variations. The painter immortalizes them in powerful series, sometimes under the snow, sometimes in the mist as here. As usual, Marquet constructs the painting from simple lines of force, such as the diagonal of the street, which defines the entire canvas and imposes itself to the viewer’s eye. Matisse writes, “Marquet couldn’t afford to buy colours, especially cadmium, which was expensive. So he painted grey, and perhaps this condition of material life favoured his way”. It is not the brilliance of colour as we find it in the work of Matisse or Derain that makes Marquet a fauve painter, but this simplification of form treated by large flattened dull colours, in half-tones.
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