Lot 104
  • 104

Albert Marquet

Estimate
30,000 - 40,000 GBP
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Description

  • TOULON, CAP BRUN
  • signed Marquet (lower right)
  • oil on board
  • 33 by 41cm., 13 by 16 1/8 in.

Provenance

Mme Albert Marquet, Paris (the artist's wife)

Exhibited

Charleroi, Palais des Beaux-Arts, Rétrospective Albert Marquet, 1981, no. 35 (erroneously catalogued as oil on canvas)
Paris, Galerie Artcurial, Albert Marquet, 1981
New York and London, Wildenstein & Co., Albert Marquet, 1985, n.n., illustrated in the catalogue
Lausanne, Fondation de l'Hermitage, Albert Marquet: 1875-1947, 1988, no. 49, illustrated in colour in the catalogue
New York, Wildenstein, Albert Marquet: Paintings, 1998


To be included in the forthcoming Marquet Catalogue raisonné being prepared by Jean-Claude Martinet & Guy Wildenstein under the sponsorship of the Wildenstein Institute.

Condition

The board is stable. There are intermittent small lines of retouching along the left and the right edges. There is a 2cm. horizontal line of retouching to the centre of the upper edge and a few small spots of retouching towards the upper right corner above the hills. All retouching is visible under UV light. This work is in good condition. Colours: Overall fairly accurate in the printed catalogue.
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Catalogue Note

1938 was as busy a year as ever for the peripatetic Albert Marquet. After visiting Amsterdam, Sweden and Copenhagen during that winter and spring, he and his wife Marcelle accepted an invitation from a friend to visit Cap Brun near the port of Toulon. At that time, he executed this work and a larger version (now in a private collection, Japan), both of which brilliantly capture the effect of a hot, misty summer day on the Mediterranean.