Posters at Trouville

1906

Albert Marquet

Painter, French, 1875 - 1947

Albert Marquet

Attributed to

Posters fill a billboard-like wall that stretches across most of the horizontal composition in this loosely painted scene. Two red-and-white striped tents with rounded tops are in the lower left quadrant of the composition. One person, perhaps a woman wearing a hat and a white dress, stands in blue shadow near one of the tents, and four others stroll across the golden-tan walkway to the right. One pedestrian wears a white dress and carries a white parasol. A man and woman wear russet brown, and the person next to the woman in white wears black. The posters are painted in tones of canary yellow, lapis blue, and red with a few touches of cool green and white. The posters, tents, and the people’s bodies are outlined in cobalt blue. Two rooflines to the left and some vertical strokes in turquoise green, light pink, and pale yellow suggest buildings stretching into the distance. A banner flies from the top of the wall in the upper right corner of the painting against a vivid blue sky in the top third of the composition. Brushstrokes are visible throughout, and glimpses of raw canvas are light brown at the edges. The artist signed the painting in the lower right corner in blue, “Marquet.”
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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    oil on canvas

  • Credit Line

    Collection of Mr. and Mrs. John Hay Whitney

  • Dimensions

    overall: 65.09 × 81.28 cm (25 5/8 × 32 in.)
    framed: 91.12 × 106.68 × 7.62 cm (35 7/8 × 42 × 3 in.)

  • Accession Number

    1998.74.1

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Charles Auguste Girard, Paris, by 1950.[1] Collection Rottembourg-Roncey, Paris, by 1957 until at least 1967.[2] (Philippe Reichenbach, Geneva); sold 1970 to (Walter Feilchenfeldt, Zurich); sold 26 May 1971 through John Rewald to Mr. and Mrs. John Hay Whitney, New York;[3] gift 1998 to NGA.
[1] The painting was lent by Girard to the 1950 Venice Biennale and possibly to the 1948 exhibition in Zurich.
[2] The painting was published in Bernard Dorival, "Les Affiches à Trouville," La Revue des Arts (September-October 1957): 225, and in Joseph-Emile Muller, Fauvism, New York, 1967: no. 117, as being in the Rottembourg-Roncey collection.
[3] See letter from Walter Feilchenfeldt dated 21 October 2000, in NGA curatorial files.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1946

  • Cent Chefs-d'Oeuvre des Peintres de l'Ecole de Paris, Galerie Charpentier, Paris, 1946, no. 50

1948

  • Albert Marquet 1875-1947, Kunsthaus Zürich, 1948, no. 26

1950

  • XXV Biennale di Venezia, 1950, no. 33

  • Les Fauves und die Zeitgenossen, Kunsthalle Bern, 1950, no. 84

1951

  • Le Fauvisme, Musée National d'Art Moderne, Paris, 1951, no. 85

1957

  • Depuis Bonnard, Musée Nationale d'Art Moderne, Paris, 1957, no. 120, repro.

1962

  • Les Fauves, Galerie Charpentier, Paris, 1962, no. 81.

1975

  • Albert Marquet, Galerie des Beaux-Arts, Bordeaux; Orangerie des Tuileries, Paris, 1975-1976, no. 34, repro.

1978

  • Aspects of Twentieth-Century Art, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1978-1979, no. 38, repro.

1983

  • The John Hay Whitney Collection, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1983, no. 47, repro.

1990

  • The Fauve Landscape, Los Angeles County Museum of Art; The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; The Royal Academy of Arts, London, 1990, repro.

1998

  • Gifts to the Nation from Mr. and Mrs. John Hay Whitney, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1998-1999, no catalogue.

2004

  • Fauve Painting from the Permanent Collection, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 2004-2005, no catalogue.

2012

  • The Draw of the Normandy Coast, 1860-1960, Portland Museum of Art, Maine, 2012, unnumbered catalogue, fig. 16.

2013

  • Matisse and the Fauves, Albertina, Vienna, 2013-2014, no. 62, repro.

2014

  • Matisse and Friends: Selected Masterworks from the National Gallery of Art, Denver Art Museum, 2014-2015, no catalogue.

2016

  • Albert Marquet: Peintre du Temps Suspendu, Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, 2016, no. 17, repro.

Bibliography

1949

  • Duthuit, Georges. Les Fauves. Geneva, 1949:75, repro.

1957

  • Dorival, Bernard. "Les Affiches à Trouville de Raoul Dufy." La Revue des Arts, Musées de France 7 no. 5 (September-October 1957):225+, repro;

1959

  • Leymarie, Jean. Fauvism. New York, 1959:100, repro.

1967

  • Muller, Joseph-Emile. Fauvism. New York, 1967: 118, repro.

1998

  • "The Whitney Bequest at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC: A collection of Fauves for the nation." Apollo (October 1998):repro.

Inscriptions

lower right: marquet

Wikidata ID

Q20191054

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