Albert Marquet (1875-1947)
Nuit, Paris (La Samaritaine)
signed 'marquet' (lower right)
oil on canvas
8 5/8 x 9 1/8 in. (21.8 x 23.3 cm.)
Painted in 1937-1938
Provenance
Marcelle Marquet, Paris. Martinet collection, Paris (by descent from the above). Acquired from the above by the present owner, 1987.
Exhibited
Besançon, Musée des Beaux-Arts, Albert Marquet, Peintures, aquarelles, dessins, July-September 1955, p. 11, no. 28 (titled Nuit). Amsterdam, Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten, Marquet, June-July 1962, no. 41 (titled Pont-Neuf la nuit and dated 1944). New York, M. Knoedler & Co., Inc., Marquet, May 1964, no. 44 (titled Night).
This work will be included in the forthcoming volume of the catalogue critique of Albert Marquet’s paintings being prepared by the Wildenstein Institute.