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PROPERTY FROM A PRIVATE EUROPEAN COLLECTION

1875-1947
VENISE

measurements
25 5/8 by 31 7/8 in.

alternate measurements
65 by 81 cm

Painted in 1936.

Signed Marquet (lower right)

Oil on canvas

PROVENANCE

Galerie Georges Moos, Geneva
Galerie du Cirque, Paris
Didier Imbert Fine Art, Paris (1987)
Private Collection, Connecticut
Noortman Master Paintings, Maastricht
Private Collection, Europe

EXHIBITED

Paris, Didier Imbert Fine Art, Tableaux XIXe et XXe siècles, 1987, no. 10

NOTE

In 1936, the year the present work was painted; Marquet spent the summer in Venice with his family. Marcelle Marquet, the artist's wife, recalled her husbands working methods during their stay describing how Marquet 'travaillait tôt le matin, souvent au lever du soleil et dans les fins d'après midi, à l'heure ou la lumiere fléchit' (Worked early in the morning often at sunrise and towards the end of the day, at the times when the light softens) and in order to escape both the tourists and the intense summer heat (Marcelle Marquet, Venise, Paris, 1953, p.9). These Venetian views, in which Marquet successfully places himself in the great tradition of Canaletto, Guardi (fig .1), Turner and Monet, are amongst the most eloquent of Marquet's mature works combining several of his preoccupations- the sea, boats and magnificent architecture-all within a single, highly finished composition.

Fig. 1 Francesco Guardi, San Giorgio Maggiori, 1775
Fig. 2 Marquet and his nephew Jean Claude Martinet in the 1930's