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"La Porteuse de Pain," (1910), color woodcut, 7" x 8 1/4," on heavy cream wove paper, with full margins as issued, the raised blindstamp of the Guilde de la Gravure lower left, signed by the artist with his cursive signature stamp "sur ses propres oeuvres" [see Lugt 1796g], numbered IX/LX. Albert Marquet (1875-1947) was primarily an artist of panoramic views of the quays along the Seine in Paris and the ports of the world with their docks, cranes, tugboats and ships at anchor. That is, except for his foray into Fauvism (1905-1907) along with Vlaminck, Derain and Braque. Marquet, Camoin, Valtat and Puy were the more reserved of the Fauvists who accomplished the final liberation of color toward which, in their different ways, Gauguin, Van Gogh, Seurat, the Nabis, and the neo-impressionists had been experimenting. The fauvist's used violent color squeezed directly from the tube, not to describe objects in nature, not simply to set up retinal vibrations, not to accentuate a romantic or mystical subject, but to build new pictorial values apart from all these. Fauvism possessed certain shared traits: brilliant, often pure color; rapidly brushed texture, patchlike or with spots of white canvas left bare; ostensibly improvised or random composition; and strongly subjective handling of themes or natural forms. Presented in an umber colored ridged frame with a walnut fillet, 100% acid free archival mat and UV glass. Frame dimensions are 19 1/2" x 18 1/2." The horizontal ridges in the frame contrast with the animation within the woodcut. "La Porteuse de Pain," (the bearer of bread) is a fine and flowing work by a central figure of the Fauvist movement. It is in fine and original condition ............... $1,000.00 |