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ALBERT MARQUET (1875-1947)
Le Passeur
signed 'marquet' (lower right)
oil on canvas
21 3/8 x 28 7/8 in. (54.4 x 73.3 cm.)
Painted circa 1926
Provenance
Estate of the artist (until at least July 1954).
Private collection, Paris (by 1968).
Galerie de la Présidence, Paris.
Acquired from the above by the late owners, circa 1985.
Literature
M. Marquet, Marquet, Voyages, Lausanne, 1968 (illustrated in color, pl. 14; titled Passeur à la goulette).
J.-C. Martinet and G. Wildenstein, Marquet, L'Afrique du Nord: Catalogue de l'oeuvre peint, Paris, 2001, p. 508, no. I-710 (illustrated in color).
Exhibited
Paris, Galerie Druet, Albert Marquet Oeuvres récentes, 1926-1928, April-May 1928, no. 1 (titled Le Port).
Bordeaux, Musée de Peinture, Rétrospective des oeuvres de A. Marquet, May-June 1949, no. 23 (dated 1920 and titled Le port de la Goulette).
Copenhagen, Statens Museum for Kunst and Oslo, Kunstnernes Hus, Albert Marquet September-December 1950, p. 13, no. 25 (illustrated, fig. 7; titled Havnen i La Goulette. Tunis).
Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Albert Marquet May 1951, no. 21 (titled La Goulette, Tunisie).
Toulouse, Musée des Augustins, Marquet, June-July 1954, no. 22 (titled Port de la Goulette (Tunis)).
Kiev, Saint Petersburg and Moscow, Albert Marquet December 1958-April 1959, p. 7, no. 9.
Tokyo, Bridgestone Museum of Art, Marquet, September-October 1960, no. 31 (illustrated).
Tokyo, Seibu Department Store and Osaka, Takatsuki Shopping Center, Albert Marquet September-November 1973, no. 29 (illustrated).
New York, Wildenstein & Co. Inc., Marquet, April-May 1985 (illustrated in color on the cover).