Auction on
11 June 2021 - 13:30 (CEST) -
Salle 1-7 - Hôtel Drouot - 75009
Close to Matisse and the Fauves, Albert Marquet (1875-1947) carved himself a niche as a painter of water. While in Bordeaux, he tackled the Place des Quinconces and the Garonne in an improvisatory style.
Albert Marquet (1875-1947), Bordeaux, Les Quinconces, 1924, oil on canvas, 60 x 81 cm/23.6 x 31.8 in. Estimate: €80,000/100,000
Albert Marquet (1875-1947), Bordeaux, Les Quinconces, 1924, oil on canvas, 60 x 81 cm/23.6 x 31.8 in. Estimate: €80,000/100,000
As a child, Albert Marquet used to escape to the busy quays and port of Bordeaux , his native city. Sickly, disabled, short-sighted, shy and taciturn Marquet surely owes his image as "the gentleman of the painting world" to his character. He was almost assumed to be forgotten, but a 2016 monograph show at the Musée d’Art Moderne in Paris proved highly popular…
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