Albert Marquet

Mme. Albert Marquet (the artist's wife) 
Thence by descent
Private Collection (acquired from the above in 1991)

Paris, Musée d'Art Moderne, Le Fauvisme, 1951, no. 77, listed p. 29
New York, Wildenstein & Co., Marquet, 1951, no. 3
Rotterdam, Museum Boymans, Albert Marquet, 1955-56, no. 16, titled Soleil couchant au Louvre
Albi, Musée Toulouse-Lautrec, Exposition Albert Marquet: Peintures, Aquarelles, Dessins, 1957, no. 9, listed p. 30, titled Soleil Couchant au Louvre
Paris, Galerie Charpentier, Les Fauves, 1962, no. 83, listed n.p.
New York, M. Knoedler & Co., Marquet, 1964, no. 9, listed n.p., titled Sunset on the Louvre
Paris, Galerie Schmit, Marquet, 1967, no. 21, illustrated p. 35
Nice, Palais de la Méditerranée, Marquet: cent cinquante oeuvres, 1967, n.n.

Anita Brookner, "Current and Forthcoming Exhibitions, Paris," in The Burlington Magazine, vol. CIV, no. 710, 1962, fig. 57, illustrated p. 221, titled La Cour du Carrousel

Oil on panel. Surface in generally good condition, minor craquelure throughout. Some pigment separation in the more thickly painted blacks and yellows, visible in the catalogue illustration . Under UV light: very minor inpainting t the extreme edges in the upper corners and along the upper left and right edge; otherwise, no apparent inpainting visible.
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