Lot 137
  • 137

Albert Marquet

Estimate
120,000 - 180,000 USD
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Description

  • Bateaux dans le port
  • Signed marquet (lower right)
  • Oil on canvas
  • 23 5/8 by 28 7/8 in.
  • 60 by 73.4 cm

Provenance

Bernheim-Jeune, Paris (acquired in 1922)
Galerie Paul Pétridès, Paris
Sale: Christie's, London, November 29, 1994, lot 137
Private Collection

Exhibited

Paris, Albert Marquet, 1925, no. 47 and 49

Literature

Jean-Claude Martinet and Guy Wildenstein, Marquet: L'Afrique du Nord, Catalogue de l'oeuvre peint, Paris, 2001, no. I-64, illustrated p. 116

Condition

Work is in good condition. Canvas is lined. Surface is slightly dirty. Under UV light: ten to fifteen scattered dots of inpainting in the sky, mostly confined to edges and horizon line. There is a one inch stroke of inpainting in the dark hillside left of center, a one inch square of inpainting at lower right corner and another on left edge near lower left corner. A few spots along lower edge to address prior frame abrasion, otherwise fine.
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