Lot 37
  • 37

Albert Marquet

Estimate
30,000 - 50,000 USD
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Description

  • Alger, vue de la Casbah
  • Signed marquet (lower left)
  • Oil on cradled panel
  • 16 by 12 3/4 in.; 40.6 by 32.4 cm
  • Painted circa 1920-21.

Provenance

Mme. Albert Marquet (the artist's wife) 
Thence by descent
Private Collection (acquired from the above in 2002)

Exhibited

Lyon, Musée de Lyon, Marquet, 1962, no. 49, illustrated in the catalogue 
New York, M. Knoedler & Co., 1964, no. 30
Nice, Palais de la Méditerranée, Retrospective des oeuvres de Marquet, 1967, no. 73, illlustrated in the catalogue
Saint-Tropez, Musée de l'Annonciade, Albert Marquet. Journal de bord en Méditerranée, 2001, n.n.

Literature

Francis Jourdain, Marquet, Paris, 1959, p. 126
Marcelle Marquet, Marquet, voyages, Lausanne, 1968, pl. 11
Jean-Claude Martinet & Guy Wildenstein, Marquet, L'Afrique du Nord, Catalogue de l'œuvre peint, Paris, 2001, no. I-19, illustrated p. 91

Condition

Oil on cradled panel. Surface in generally good condition, colors are lively and fresh. Some areas of pigment loss along extreme upper edge. One pin dot discoloration at extreme center right. Under UV light; scattered areas of inpainting visible in the sky and stairwell.
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Catalogue Note

Following World War I, Albert Marquet travelled frequently to Africa. The present lot depicts The Casbah of Algiers, the traditional citadel and the quarter clustered around it.