Lot 110
  • 110

ALBERT MARQUET | Fleurs, Alger

Estimate
25,000 - 35,000 USD
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Description

  • Fleurs, Alger
  • Signed marquet (lower right); signed with the initials MM, titled and dated 44 (on the reverse) 
  • Oil on canvasboard
  • 12 7/8 by 16 in.
  • 32.7 by 40.6 cm
  • Painted circa 1932.

Provenance

Mme Albert Marquet, Paris (by descent from the artist)
Wildenstein & Co., Inc., New York
Acquired from the above on March 5, 1992 

Exhibited

New York, Wildenstein & Co., Inc., Albert Marquet, A Loan Exhibition for the Benefit of the Hospitality Committee of the United Nations, 1971, n.n. 
Paris, Galerie Artcurial, Albert Marquet, 1981, n.n.

Literature

Marquet (exhibition catalogue), Wildenstein & Co., Inc., New York & Wildenstein & Co., London, 1985, illustrated n.p.
Jean-Claude Martinet & Guy Wildenstein, Marquet, L'Afrique du nord, catalogue de l'oeuvre peint, Paris, 2001, no. I-185, illustrated in color p. 191

Condition

This work is in excellent condition. The board is sound. Under UV light: no inpainting is apparent.
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