Albert Marquet Nude Drawings and Watercolors

Ink on paper. Signed and dated 1905 lower left. Framed dimensions are 12 inches high by 12 inches wide. Albert Marquet arrived in Paris in 1890, and studied at the École des Arts Décoratifs, where he met Henri Matisse, before entering the École Nationale des Beaux-Arts in the studio of Gustave Moreau. He also passed through the Académie Ranson, where Sérusier taught. In 1906 he worked with Dufy in Normandy; and in Le Havre and Trouville. The following year he stayed with Matisse and Camoin in London. He travelled throughout Europe and North Africa, but from 1920 until his death in 1947 was based in his studio on the Quai St-Michel in Paris. Although he was chiefly a painter of landscapes and water scenes, Marquet sometimes painted portraits: a drawing entitled Self-portrait of A. Marquet; and, among his paintings, a Portrait of Madame Lani, and a portrait of the draughtsman and writer A. Rouveyre, which has often been reproduced in photoengravings. Of his figures and landscapes, the most notable include Standing Nude, Seated Nude, Nude with Crossed Legs, Two Friends, Woman in Pink Stockings, Arab Women, The Seine at the Pont Marie, Notre Dame, Balcony, Quai des Grands-Augustins, The Pont-Neuf, Quai du Louvre in Winter, Pont de Conflans, Le Havre, 14 July, Pont St-Michel, Pont de la Concorde, La Trinité, Flood, Montparnasse Station, La Varenne, Herblay, Collioure, Honfleur, La Rochelle, L'Estaque, Marseilles, Tangiers: Bou Saada and Algiers. He illustrated My Brigadier Triboulère (Mon Brigadier Triboulère) by E. Montfort, and Moussa the Young African (Moussa le Petit Noir...