Albert Marquet belongs to the record of art as a figure whose work outlasted the taste that first received it.
The record lists Albert Marquet as French painter (1875-1947).
Albert Marquet was born at Bordeaux in 1875. His recorded nationality is France. He trained at Beaux-Arts de Paris and École nationale supérieure des arts décoratifs.
Around the turn of the twentieth century the movements arrived in quick succession, each defining itself against the last.
He worked as painter, draftsperson and visual artist.
His recorded movement is fauvism.
Art history is a record of what got kept, which is not the same as what was best.
That the work was made in France shaped it: artistic traditions, academies and the galleries that decide what is seen have never been evenly distributed.
Albert Marquet died in 1947, aged 72. The work remains, hanging in collections that outlived both the artist and the market that first priced it.
Achievements
- Movement: Fauvism
