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Dimensions: measurements 64.5 by 80cm. alternate measurements 25 3/8 by 31 1/2 in.

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Provenance: Boris J. Fize, Paris (acquired circa 1930 and until at least 1976)
Irène Ozanne-Fize, Paris (by descent from the above)
Private Collection
Galerie Schmit, Paris
Private Collection, New York (acquired from the above)

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Exhibited:

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Literature: La Toison d'Or, Moscow, 1919, no. 2, illustrated p. 4
Revue Art, 6th July 1951, illustrated p. 4
Joseph-Emile Muller, Le Fauvisme, 1956, illustrated in colour p. 41
Joseph-Emile Muller, Le Fauvisme, 1967, no. 85, illustrated in colour p. 93
Gaston Diehl, The Fauves, New York, 1971, illustrated in colour p. 99

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Notes: To be included in the forthcoming Marquet Catalogue raisonné being prepared by Jean-Claude Martinet and Guy Wildenstein under the sponsorship of the Wildenstein Institute.
PROPERTY FROM A PRIVATE AMERICAN COLLECTION
Painted at the height of Marquet's involvement with the Fauves, the present work is a wonderfully vibrant image of the beach at Sainte-Adresse, with its fashionably dressed strollers scattered around the beach and on the jetty. In July and August of 1906 Marquet travelled in the company of Raoul Dufy along the Normandy coast, each artist exploring in his own way the expressive potential of colour and form evoked by the scenes they encountered in the popular resorts of Le Havre and Sainte-Adresse. Judi Freeman wrote about the present work: 'The canvas is divided into three separate zones: the foreground beach, treated largely in brown tones, the white middle ground extending beneath the jetty, and the mottled blue of the sky. The most complex area, the jetty itself, was probably panted first; the figures in this zone are rendered in the greatest detail. Colour is used judiciously as an accent; the umbrellas and dresses, for example, receive the most luminous colour. The green path dividing the middleground, the green and white supports of the jetty, and the blue and brown of the jetty walkway provide the framework for the picture's composition' (J. Freeman in Fauves (exhibition catalogue), op. cit., 1995, p. 182). Marquet himself chose the present work, together with another two, for the Toison d'Or exhibition held in Moscow in 1909, which was one of the first exhibitions to introduce Fauve art to Russian audiences.