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"I painted only [in pure colours] at Arcueil and at the Luxembourg Gardens."
Albert MarquetThe colors, exceptionally violent, have cleared a well-known path.. .. — Albert Marquet
"The colors, exceptionally violent, have cleared a well-known path.. ..Everything has gone according plan, as if expected. Everything except for the end result: a general effect that is, for Marquet, superb."
Albert Marquet
Albert Marquet
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Albert Marquet was a French painter. He initially was one of the Fauve painters and a lifelong friend of Henri Matisse. Marquet subsequently painted in a more impressionist style, primarily landscapes, but also several portraits and, between 1910 and 1914, several female nude paintings.
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"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."
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"Painting, even if we call it bad, if it is what helps to keep someone alive, how can we condemn it?"
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"I was certain that they [ Poussins paintings which Marquet copied frequently in the 1880s] would never bore me."
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"It has happened that I have begun a canvas in a brilliant tonality, going on to finish it in a grey notation. (1898)"
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"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."
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