1. Albert Marquet initially became one of the Fauve painters and a lifelong friend of Henri Matisse.
10 Facts About Albert Marquet
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Albert Marquet began studies in 1892 at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts under Gustave Moreau, a symbolist artist who was a follower of the Romantic tradition of Eugene Delacroix.
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Albert Marquet subsequently painted in a more naturalistic style, primarily landscapes.
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The fundamental difference between the two is that while Matisse used strong colors, Albert Marquet favored grayed yellows, greyed violets or blues.
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From 1907 to his death, Albert Marquet alternated between working in his studio in Paris and many parts of the European coast and in North Africa.
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Albert Marquet was most involved with Algeria and Algiers and with Tunisia.
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Albert Marquet's color is much like Matisse of the 1920s, here.
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Albert Marquet died in La Frette-sur-Seine, on 14 June 1947.
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Albert Marquet was revered by the American painters Leland Bell and his wife Louisa Matthiasdottir.
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Albert Marquet was revered by Bell's contemporaries Al Kresch and Gabriel Laderman.