Lot 112
  • 112

ALBERT MARQUET | L'Été, Alger

Estimate
40,000 - 60,000 USD
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Description

  • L'Été, Alger
  • Signed marquet (lower right)
  • Oil on board 
  • 15 1/4 by 18 1/2 in.
  • 38.7 by 47 cm
  • Painted in 1944.

Provenance

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

Exhibited

Paris, Galerie Artcurial, Albert Marquet, 1981, n.n.
New York, Wildenstein & Co., Inc. & London, Wildenstein & Co., Marquet, 1985, n.n.

Literature

Jean-Claude Martinet & Guy Wildenstein, Marquet, L'Afrique du nord, catalogue de l'oeuvre peint, Paris, 2001, no. I-477, illustrated in color p. 353

Condition

This work is in very good condition. The board is sound and has been mounted on a cradled panel for support. There is some minor pigment shrinkage in the dark green pigments of the foliage. Under UV light: there are a few very minor strokes of inpainting along the right edge and to the lower right corner.
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