Albert MARQUET - Original signed drawing
Mr and Mrs Marquet
Ink on paper signed with initials lower right.
Lovely intimate portrait of Albert and Marcelle Marquet, whose head rests tenderly nestled on her husband's shoulder.
Albert Marquet met Marcelle Martinet in January 1920 in Algiers. She is a blackfoot woman with character. She serves as his interpreter. He is forty-five years old and does not want to commit to a permanent marriage, and yet, they will never leave each other. The marriage was celebrated on February 10, 1923 in Algiers, the city of their first meeting. She takes care to give him his absolute freedom, managing the career of her illustrious painter, handling administrative matters, even taking care of his correspondence. They have the taste and the need to adventure. Together, they traveled across Europe, staying every winter in the Maghreb from 1931 to 1938. She accompanied him with deep love until her last breath, on June 14, 1947. She wrote on July 13: "Your last evening, you finished it by reading a few lines from Balzac."
Dimensions :
- Height : 18,4 cm
- Width : 11,2 cm
Albert Marquet :
(1875-1947) is a french painter born in Bordeaux in 1875, and who died in Paris in 1947.
He was a friend of Matisse and Derain. He kept from his Fauve period the sense of colour and light. He painted Paris and its surroundings, the Seine bridges, the streets at night, Paris under the snow or the sun. Like Monet, he liked creating series depending on seasons, or day time. He is part of the postimpressionist generation. He took part in 1905 to the scandal Fauve exhibition. He gave up thi style later, in the search of a tone harmony. Water is one of his favorite theme, (Seine, rivesides, North Africa harbours such as Alger, Oran, Tunis or La Goulette. Starting from 1919, he travelled a lot, including to Tunisia and Algeria, joined by Jean Launois and Étienne Bouchaud.
During summer 1920, Marquet invited Signac to meet him in La Rochelle. During World War II he fled the german invasion, and settled in Algeria until the end of the war. He came back to Paris in 1945.
