Lot 357
  • 357

ALBERT MARQUET | Brume sur les coteaux d'Alger

Estimate
80,000 - 120,000 USD
bidding is closed

Description

  • Brume sur les coteaux d'Alger
  • Signed marquet (lower right); titled, dated 45 and indistinctly signed (on the reverse)
  • Oil on canvas
  • 24 by 31 7/8 in.
  • 61 by 81 cm
  • Painted circa 1944-45.

Provenance

Mme Albert Marquet, Paris (by descent from the artist)
Alex Maguy, Paris (acquired from the above in 1969)
Charles H. Cunliff, New York 
Acquired from the above on September 15, 1993

Literature

Jean-Claude Martinet & Guy Wildenstein, Marquet, L'Afrique du nord, catalogue de l'oeuvre peint, Paris, 2001, no. I-396, illustrated in color p. 302

Condition

The canvas is unlined. There is some scattered hairline craquelure, most notably to the sky. The surface is slightly dirty. Under UV light: no inpainting is apparent. The work is in overall very good condition.
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