Boulevard View, signed and dated Albert Marquet, 1909, 19th - 20th century French Impressionist school

Boulevard View, signed and dated Albert Marquet, 1909, 19th - 20th century French Impressionist school
Oil on canvas glued to board. Measurements: 23 x 28.5 cm, framed measurements: 38.5 x 44 cm. Signed and dated 1909 in the lower left corner. Provenance: private collection of Don Jorge Mañach, Cuba, before 1950, private Spanish collection, a photograph from the time of the Cuban intellectual is provided along with the painting we present. Albert Marquet (March 27, 1875 – June 14, 1947) was a French painter associated with Fauvism. After a difficult childhood, 6 his studies at various Parisian art schools brought him closer to the post-impressionist effervescence and to those who would be his closest friends. Life was not easy for a young artist without resources. With a temperament more secret than solitary, Marquet as a child seems to have found in drawing a way out of "his intimate suffering of him" of him. At the end of 1907 he remained in Paris and devoted himself, together with Henri Matisse, to a series of urban views. The fundamental difference between the two is that while Matisse used strong colors, Marquet preferred dull yellows, muted violets, or blues. Black is normally used as a violent contrast to light colors for forms such as bare tree trunks or calligraphically drawn people in contrast to often very light yellow or orange streets and sidewalks. Another difference is that Marquet used a traditional perspective approach, although his colors and compositions constantly referred to the rectangle and intersected its plane with his calligraphy. In Moreau's studio, he and Matisse bonded with Henri Manguin and especially Charles Camoin with whom they would remain united until the end of their lives. 5 Less will the camaraderie with others last (Jules Flandrin, Louis Valtat, Henri Evenepoel, Simon Bussy or Georges Rouault), even if they have spent their afternoons fixing the world at the Café Procope. After a brief passage through the course of Fernand Cormon and then the celebrated Académie Julian, Marquet and Matisse attended the Camillo private academy, rue de Rennes, where they received advice from Eugène Carrière, one of the thinkers of social art, who sought to popularize art education; there they meet André Derain, Pierre Laprade, Jean Puy and Maurice de Vlaminck. From then on, Marquet never stopped touring the city drawing and painting in small format views of the Seine, the quays, the bridges6. He begins to take revenge on life,