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1875–1947 France
Albert Marquet (27 March 1875 – 14 June 1947) was a French artist who lived and worked in Paris for many years; he was associated with the Fauvist movement and was a lifelong friend of Henri Matisse. Marquet subsequently painted in a more naturalistic style, primarily the city Paris and landscapes, but also portraits and female nudes.
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..the Matisse of long ago, so alert, such a battler, always giving as good as he got.
It is in working [= painting] that you will find yourself..
Let's leave the studio and go watch what moves..
When I draw, 1 am as pre-occupied before a gas-jet as before a human being.
I painted only [in pure colours] at Arcueil and at the Luxembourg Gardens.
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..
I was certain that they [ Poussin's paintings which Marquet copied frequently in the 1880's] would never bore me.
Painting, even if we call it bad, if it is what helps to keep someone alive, how can we condemn it?
Henri Matisse and I were already working, before the 1900 Exhibition, as far back as 1898, in what was later to be called the Fauve style.
It has happened that I have begun a canvas in a brilliant tonality, going on to finish it in a grey notation. (1898)
Our first Salon des Independants, where I think we [Matisse and Marquet] were the only two painters to express ourselves in pure colors, was in 1901.
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 your fault or mine, I can do no more.
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