WATER, A FAVORITE ELEMENT
Although Albert Marquet (1875-1947) is not one of my favorite painters, he has always been a question mark in my mind. Considered to be one of the greatest painters of 20th century. From the dates you can see that his contemporaries are Picasso, Matisse, the Fauves - need I go on? Matisse was one of his closest friends and yet I have never seen any mention of an encounter with Picasso! Especially as Khanweiler who discovered and launched cubism also collected a few of Marque’s paintings. I had forgotten that. I should really like his paintings too as they are considered to be without too much detail and that he has a keen sense of framing. I went along with Pierre and thanks to him, l suddenly saw Marquet in quite a different light. There is a real elegance of composition, something very delicate about his colors and a lot of atmosphere in his paintings. His early drawings too in pencil, pastel or ink where the streets of Paris, his hunting ground. Simple and sensitive, th...