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I painted only [in pure colours] at Arcueil and at the Luxembourg Gardens.

— Albert Marquet

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one of the paintings which Marquet painted in 1898 at the Luxembourg Gardens was titled simply 'Le Luxembourg', see: Francois Fosca, Albert Marquet (Paris: Editions Nouvelle Revue Francois, 1922), pl, 16.

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