Albert Marquet (1875-1947) Beirut, 1927 Watercolor... Lot 34

Albert Marquet (1875-1947) Beirut, 1927 Watercolor on paper, signed, titled, dated lower right Height : 18 cm 18 cm; Width: 25.3 cm Observer of the movement of ports, bridges and banks, painter of snow and fog, palm trees and stations Albert Marquet is an artist who marks by his clarity and his sense of synthesis. Dated 1927, these two watercolours in a similar format were painted during the cruise he took following the few weeks he had just spent in weeks he spent on the Algerian coast. Crossing the Mediterranean to reach the Near East, the artist left behind his East, the artist left luminous watercolours of his stopovers in Naples, Palermo, Athens, Lesbos, Constantinople or Beirut watercolours bearing witness to his concise and spontaneous manner so recognizable. Less common than the views of Algiers, the watercolours of the 1927 cruise are, by their format, their technique and their speed of execution their speed of execution, are very representative works of his travel notebooks where Marquet succeeds in having recourse to a to use a minimal expression to impose the essential.