Albert Marquet

Fecamp – The Artists – Marquet, Albert

This page forms part of a series of pages dedicated to the many artists who worked in Fecamp. A full list of all the artists with a link to their works can be found at the bottom of this page.

Albert Marquet
Albert Marquet

Movement(s): Fauvism

Albert Marquet (1875 – 1947), born in Bordeaux, was a French painter, associated with the Fauvist movement. He initially became one of the Fauve painters and a lifelong friend of Henri Matisse.

In 1890 he moved to Paris to attend the Ecole des Arts Decoratifs, where he met Henri Matisse. They were roommates for a time, and they influenced each other’s work.

Dismayed by the intense coloration in these paintings, critics reacted by naming the artists the “Fauves”, i.e. the wild beasts. Although Marquet painted with the fauves for years, he used less bright and violent colours than the others, and emphasized less intense tones made by mixing complementaries, thus always as colors and never as grays.

Marquet subsequently painted in a more naturalistic style, primarily landscapes, but also several portraits and, between 1910 and 1914, several female nude paintings.

Marquet was particularly revered by the American painters Leland Bell and his wife Louisa Matthiasdottir. He was also revered by Bell’s contemporaries Al Kresch and Gabriel Laderman. Since both Bell and Laderman were teachers in several American art schools, they have had an influence on younger American figurative artists and their appreciation of Marquet.

Click here to read Marquet’s full bio on Wikipedia.

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1906 - Albert Marquet - Carnival at Fecamp
1906 – Albert Marquet – Carnival at Fecamp
1906 - Albert Marquet - The Beach at Fecamp
1906 – Albert Marquet – The Beach at Fecamp

TODAY: This is the view of the Southern cliffs, where nowadays there is a casino.

1906 - Albert Marquet - The Port of Fecamp
1906 – Albert Marquet – The Port of Fecamp
1906 - Albert Marquet - The Port of Fecamp
1906 – Albert Marquet – The Port of Fecamp
1906 - Albert Marquet - The Port of Fecamp
1906 – Albert Marquet – The Port of Fecamp

TODAY: You can still see over the outer-harbour the chapel and farm on top of the cliffs (called the Golden Coast because of the real estate prices), but nowadays there is network of WWII German bunkers as well.

Albert Marquet also painted in other cities in France. More of his paintings will follow, and when published links “” will appear below.

Fecamp is a picturesque fishing town which made for a great backdrop for many artist. Here are all the artists who applied their arts in the town and its surroundings (a link “” will appear when we have published an article on this artist’s works in Fecamp):

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