Lot 413
  • 413

Albert Marquet

Estimate
80,000 - 120,000 GBP
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Description

  • Notre-Dame de Paris sous la neige
  • signed Marquet  (lower right)
  • oil on canvas
  • 81 by 64.8cm., 31 7/8 by 25 1/2 in.

Provenance

Galerie Druet, Paris (acquired from the artist in June 1916)
Henri Aubry (acquired from the above in June 1916)
Galerie Druet, Paris (acquired from the above in February 1918)
Charles Pacquement, Paris (acquired from the above in February 1918; sale: Galerie Georges Petit, Collection Charles Pacquement, Paris, 12th December 1932, lot 40)
J. Labbé, Paris (purchased at the above sale)
Madame Léon Labbé, Paris
Private Collection, Neuilly
Acquired from the above by the present owner circa 1996

Literature

'Revue des ventes. Collection Ch. Pacquement', in Beaux-Arts, 16th December 1932, p. 4

Condition

The canvas is lined. UV examination reveals some scattered spots of retouching along the edges and an area of retouching in the lower left quadrant in the river just above the barge, as well as some small spots of old retouching in the upper right quadrant. Otherwise, this work is good condition.
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Catalogue Note

Notre-Dame was a great inspiration to many early twentieth-century masters, including Henri Matisse, Maximilien Luce and Albert Marquet. The view of the present work is that seen from Marquet’s apartment at no. 19, quai Saint-Michel on the Left Bank of Paris, where he lived January 1908 until 1931. Previously the apartment had housed his great friend Henri Matisse, who painted the same view a number of times, examples of which are in the permanent collections of the Tate Modern, London, and the Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo.

Marquet painted the same view in snowy weather on at least three other occasions: in 1908 (Pushkin State Museum, Moscow), in 1927 (Musée Carnavalet, Paris, on loan) and some two years later (Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris). As with the present painting, all of those compositions are characterised by their simplified forms and understated tones.