Lot 153
  • 153

Albert Marquet

Estimate
70,000 - 90,000 USD
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Description

  • Cargos à quai (Bougie)
  • Signed Marquet (lower right)
  • Oil on canvas
  • 24 by 31 1/2 in.
  • 61 by 80 cm

Provenance

Galerie Druet, Paris
Charles Wormser (acquired from the above on July 27, 1925)
Galerie Druet, Paris (acquired from the above)
Sale: Hôtel Drouot, Paris, March 2, 1939, lot 145 (amicable liquidation of the Galerie Druet)
Madame Albert Marquet, Paris
Galerie Taménaga, Paris (acquired by circa 1995)
Private Collection, Japan (and sold: Sotheby's, New York, May 6, 2004, lot 271)
Acquired at the above sale

Exhibited

Baltimore, Baltimore Museum of Art, Foreign Section, Thirtieth Carnegie International, 1932, no. 117
St. Louis, St. Louis City Art Museum, Foreign Section of the 30th International Exhibition of Paintings, 1932, no. 38
Paris, Musée des arts décoratifs, Exposition artistique de l'Afrique française, 1935, no. 207
Paris, Galerie Schmit, Exposition Marquet, 1967, no. 64

Literature

Jacques de Laprade, ''L'Art de l'afrique française" in Beaux-Arts, July 26, 1935, pp. 1-3
Edmond Campagnac, ''L'Évolution de l'orientalisme'' in Le Matin, September 29, 1935
Jean Ducros, ''2e rencontre avec... Albert Marquet'' in L'Art et la mer, December 15, 1975, illustrated n.p.
Jean-Claude Martinet & Guy Wildenstein, Marquet: L’Afrique du Nord, Catalogue de l’oeuvre peint, Paris, 2001, no. I-560, illustrated p. 414

Condition

The painting is in very good original condition. The canvas has not been relined. There is no evidence of over-painting when examined under UV light. There is minor craquelure to the upper center of the canvas, in the sky. There is a very small loss to the paint in the water of the lower right quadrant (approx. 1 mm in diameter)
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