Albert Marquet
Albert Marquet was a French painter. He initially became one of the Fauve painters and a lifelong friend of Henri Matisse. Marquet subsequently painted in a more naturalistic style, primarily landscapes, but also several portraits and, between 1910 and 1914, several female nude paintings.
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Background
- Born in
- Bordeaux
- Educated at
- Beaux-Arts de ParisÉcole nationale supérieure des arts décoratifs
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Trending topics shown first"Painting, even if we call it bad, if it is what helps to keep someone alive, how can we condemn it?"
"When I draw, 1 am as pre-occupied before a gas-jet as before a human being."
"I do not know how to write or speak but only to paint and draw. Look at what I have done. Whether I have succeeded in explaining myself or not, in any case, if you do not understand my work, through y…"
"Over the course of the war I came to understand a lot. The Communists are right.. .It's terrible that many people haven't understood anything and want to return everything back.."
"Our first Salon des Independants, where I think we were the only two painters to express ourselves in pure colors, was in 1901."
"..the Matisse of long ago, so alert, such a battler, always giving as good as he got."
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1875
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Birth1947
Died
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