Lot 111
  • 111

ALBERT MARQUET | Les Marguerites

Estimate
35,000 - 45,000 USD
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Description

  • Les Marguerites
  • Signed marquet (lower left); signed with the initials MM, titled and dated 44 (on the reverse)
  • Oil on paper mounted on canvas
  • 13 1/8 by 16 1/8 in.
  • 33.3 by 41 cm
  • Painted circa 1944-45.

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. & London, Wildenstein & Co., Marquet, 1985, n.n., illustrated in the catalogue

Literature

Jean-Claude Martinet & Guy Wildenstein, Marquet, L'Afrique du nord, catalogue de l'oeuvre peint, Paris, 2001, no. I-454, illustrated in color p. 337

Condition

This work is in very good condition. There are artist's pinholes in all four corners of the sheet. Th edges of the sheet are slightly unevenly cut and there is a slight undulation. Under UV light: there are a few possible minor strokes of inpainting to the upper left and upper right corners.
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