Albert Marquet - Baie de Sidi-bou-Said - image-1

Lot 828 D

Albert Marquet - Baie de Sidi-bou-Said

Auction 1013 - overview Cologne
25.05.2013, 11:30 - Modern Art May 25 2013
Estimate: 1.500 € - 2.000 €
Result: 1.037 € (incl. premium)

Pen and ink on smooth drawing paper 13.8 x 17.8 cm, doublesided framed under glass. Unsigned. Reverse inscribed and dated 'S. B Said 23' in pencil. - Paper slightly browned. Somewhat irregularly cut.

The drawing is a study for the oil painting 'La Plage' from 1923 (cf. Jean-Claude Martinet / Guy Wildenstein, Marquet, L'Afrique du Nord, catalogue de l'oeuvre peint, Paris 2001, p. 473, no. I-658). Sidi-bou-Said is in Carthage, North Africa.

Provenance

Artist's studio; Vente Albert Marquet, Hotel Drouot (in collaboration with Michèle Paret), Paris 17/ 18 Oct. 2010; private collection, France

Literature

Jean-Claude Martinet / Guy Wildenstein, Marquet, L'Afrique du Nord, catalogue de l'oeuvre peint, Paris 2001, p. 473 with illus.