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Albert Marquet
(1875-1947)
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a Fauve painter born in the Bordeaux region of France.
He attended the School of Decorative Arts in Paris and
studied under Gustave Moreau at the early age of 15.
Marquet also studied at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts and
became friends with fellow painter Henri Matisse while
they were both students. The two worked side-by-side
decorating the halls of the Grand Palace for the Paris
Exposition in 1900, and remained lifelong friends. |
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Gulf View in Hornfleur, 1911
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Unlike fellow Fauve
painter Matisse, Marquet's style of painting was more of
an answer to anti-Impressionism. Marquet eventually
broke away from Fauvism and created a style of his own,
most likely because he did not value bright and intense
color in the same way that his fellow Fauve painters
did. While other painters were using pure, saturated
color, Marquet was experimenting with gray scales and
hues used by the Impressionists in some of his
paintings. |
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Bouquet Dans un Vase Bleu
Quai des Augustins Sous la Neige
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Once an established
painter, Marquet painted what he liked, and not
necessarily what society or artistic tastes of the day
deemed fashionable. He was an introverted painter and
kept to himself. During his early years as a Fauve
painter, he created portraits, nudes, still life and
more. He first exhibited with the Fauves in 1905 at the
Salon d'Automne. Marquet was also a seasoned traveler
and made trips to Russia, Holland and North Africa. He
was truly a bohemian painter, and lived in a number of
places around the world and only truly settled in Paris
two years before his death. |
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Beach at Fecamp
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After a 1912 visit to
Morocco with Matisse, primarily painted landscapes.
Marquet would also change his materials in 1925 and
abandoned almost all other mediums besides watercolor.
During his travels, Marquet would frequent a number of
places such as Venice, Tunisia, Naples and Algeria. Due
to the fact that he traveled so much, a number of his
paintings are of ports and exotic landscapes. |
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Le Port de Algier
Mosque of Laghonat
Naples Le
Voilier
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From 1910 to 1914,
Marquet briefly broke away from painting landscapes, and
focused on nudes and interior brothel scenes. However,
he eventually returned to landscapes, and continued to
paint in the same style, fairly consistently, for the
rest of his life, typically signing his work "Marquet"
in cursive script on the front of his canvases. |
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Nu En Buste Allonge
Nude
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Today, Marquet's work
is housed in public and private collections worldwide,
and perhaps in your own home. Still wondering about a
unique Fauvist landscape or figure study hanging in your
home? Contact us... it could be by Albert Marquet. |
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