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17 - Albert Marquet (1875-1947), Environs d'Alger , 1920, oil on …
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Albert Marquet (1875-1947), Environs d'Alger , 1920, oil on canvas mounted on card, signed, 33x41 cm Photographic certificate from Robert Schmit, Paris, dated 31.05.1967 Provenance: Galerie Bernheim-Jeune, Paris, 20 May 1920 (stock no. 22108), (acquired directly from the artist), Mr and Mrs Martin A. Ryerson, USA, 12 June 1920, (acquired from previous provenance), The Art Institute of Chicago, 1933, gift of Mr and Mrs Martin A. Ryerson between 1933 and 1955, Shinwa Auction, Tokyo, 17.11.2018, lot 56, Private Collection, (acquired from previous provenance), Sotheby's Auction, London, 04.05.2022, lot 82, Private Collection, Switzerland, (acquired from previous provenance) Bibliography: A Guide to the Painting in the Permanent Collection, The Art Institute of Chicago, 1925, p. 162, no. 2127, A Guide to the Painting in the Permanent Collection, The Art Institute of Chicago, 1932, no. R.1201/65, J. W. Lane, The Paintings of Albert Marquet , in Gazette des Beaux Arts, vol. XXXI, January-June 1947, p. 188, fig. 5, Jean-Claude Martinet and Guy Wildenstein, Marquet - L'Afrique du Nord - Catalogue de l'œuvre peint, Wildenstein Institute, Paris, Skira/Seuil, Milan, 2001, p. 97-98, I-30, ill. Exhibition: The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, A Century of Progress, 01.06-01.11.1933, p. 79, no. 700, The Art Institute of Chicago, A Century of Progress, 1934, no. 348, Galerie Jean de Ruaz, Marquet, Paris, 1950, no. 6, Galerie Schmit, Paris, Marquet, du 17 mai au 17 juin 1967, no. 63, ill. Marquet and Algeria The year 1920 marked a decisive turning point in Albert Marquet's life and work. Weakened by his health and fleeing the rigours of the Paris winter, the artist arrived in Algiers in January. What was supposed to be a stay for health reasons turned into a lasting passion: Marquet met his future wife, Marcelle Martinet, and made Algeria his chosen country for the next twenty-five years. Unlike his Orientalist predecessors, Marquet sought neither exoticism nor colonial picturesqueness. He brought with him the rigour of composition he had learnt from Gustave Moreau and his heritage of the Fauvist revolution, making his paintings of Algeria particularly sought-after. In this intimate composition, the artist synthesises the landscape in large flat tints. The brushstrokes are quick and fluid. A few brushstrokes are enough to suggest the structure of a palm tree or the curve of a path. This emblematic work, painted in 1920, the year of his arrival, is a precious and vibrant testimony to this new land that he was discovering and learning to tame under his brush. A watercolour by Marquet, Le pont des Arts, is also on sale online, lot 2464.
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