Albert Marquet (French, 1875-1947) Samois, summer,... Lot 62

Albert Marquet (French, 1875-1947) Samois, summer, 1917 Canvas signed lower right. Height 65,3 Width 81,5 cm. Notice of inclusion in the digital catalog raisonné in preparation by Wildenstein Plattner Institute Inc. Bibliography: - Collective, "Albert Marquet, Peintre du temps suspendu", Paris Musée, 2016, work to be related: L'Île aux Cygnes, l'été, Herblay, 1919, reproduced p. 117. - Collective, "Marquet, Views of Paris and the Île-de-France", Paris Musée, 2004, work to be linked to: Samois, l'île, 1917, reproduced p. 66. A naval painter, Marquet never stopped traveling during his life, touring France, the shores of the Mediterranean, Europe and the rest of the world. But it was above all Paris and the banks of the Seine that won his affection. Here he set up his easel upstream from the French capital, in Samois-sur-Seine, on the edge of the Fontainebleau forest. A student of Gustave Moreau and a great friend of Henri Matisse, the artist developed a unique art, with elegant and poetic compositions. Marquet frees himself from all theoretical conventions, delivering landscapes that synthesize nature. The painter distances himself from the great artistic currents, although he owes them everything. In 1875, the year of his birth, landscape painting enjoyed an unprecedented popularity. As for so many others at that time, water was an obsessive subject. The reflection of the trees, as with Monet, inspired Marquet to create powerful double-inverted compositions. Following a different sensibility from the Impressionists, he was not interested in the diffraction of light under the effect of lapping water and preferred to attenuate the alterations of light so that the color invaded the canvas, creating an enigmatic vision, sometimes bordering on abstraction.