Galerie Dreyfus
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ALBERT MARQUET (BORDEAUX, 1875 – PARIS, 1947)
Houses in Bill…
See original version (French)
59
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ALBERT MARQUET (BORDEAUX, 1875 – PARIS, 1947)
Houses in Bill…
See original version (French)
Estimate €110,000 - €138,000
Voluntary lot
Description
ALBERT MARQUET
(BORDEAUX, 1875 – PARIS, 1947)
Houses in Billancourt
Circa 1903–1904
Fauvist period
Oil on canvas
50.2 x 60.2 cm.
Signed lower right ‘marquet’
Provenance
(Probably) Galerie Druet, Paris;
Leclanché Collection, Paris (1907);
Palais Galliera auction, Paris, 21 March 1974 (lot 75)
Private collection, France.
Certificate
This work will be included in the online catalogue raisonné of Albert Marquet’s work
currently being prepared by the Wildenstein-Plattner Institute.
This small section of yellow—or rather ivory—wall, which absorbs the light before
reflecting it back onto our retinas, takes on an almost Proustian quality. It is pure painting, with
its brushstrokes, that Albert Marquet offers us at this precise point, inviting us
into his composition. From this patch of colour, which has suddenly become a gable, the
façade of a two-storey building takes shape, and, immediately afterwards, its reflection in the river. Everything is then organised
around the horizontal line of a towpath, a clean, straight line
that delineates a mirrored space. But against this geometry, Marquet sets the organic masses
of the undulating background and, above all, the imposing canopy of trees which, in the
foreground, occupy an islet amidst the currents. A landscape painter sensitive to the effects of light,
which he likes to isolate in small patches, Albert Marquet is drawn to abstraction without, however,
fully committing to it. His brushwork is ever-present, spreading his colours as if he were working directly
from his palette. Thus, the horizontal band depicting the riverbank and its reflection blends browns and greens
in a tachist style that foreshadows Fauvism. The tones, at once muted and luminous, display a
subtle palette of complementary colours that place Marquet amongst the greatest
Fauvist colourists.
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