Erotic Scene

Erotic Scene is a beautiful lithograph on ivory-colored paper, realized in the 1920s by Albert Marquet  (Bordeaux, 1875 - Paris,1947).

Monogrammed on the plate on the lower margin. Stamped on the rear "Collection of Pecci-Blunt"

From the Suite L'Académie des Dames, Open Edition in New York of "325".

Good conditions with minor foxing.

Albert Marquet  (Bordeaux, 1875 - Paris,1947), French painter and close friend of  Henri Matisse,  Marquet is often associated with the  Fauves ; nevertheless, some critics consider his art closer to that of  Édouard Manet  and the  Impressionists . After 1909, he calmed the chromatic violence of his earliest works, and began using simplified forms and wide brushstrokes; he painted nudes, but most of all fluvial and marine landscapes. Marquet is considered a landscapist who painted scenes of Paris and of the lands he visited. The French painter often incorporated sea or rivers in his artworks, boasting his expert rendering of the silvery quality of light reflecting on water (like in  Port de Marseille , 1924).

“ Marquet combined a sure grasp of form, a sensitive and skillful exploitation of dramatic effects of  light, and a feeling for color that managed to be sober and rich at the same time. ” In an article of the New York Times of 1953, Howard Devree describes Albert Marquet in these words.