Word: marquet
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Fauve-pointilist Matisse, shown with a Marquet similar in conception, exhibits the genius which would evolve to produce such a work as Reading Woman Against Black Background. Parallel to this, a particularly handsome analytical-cubist Braque foreshadows a flowering of the personality later to paint the small but outstanding Black Fish...
...when they saw the garland of new-fangled electric lamps decorating the entrance to the Palais' cellar. When they went down the stairs, they and their escorts found more reason for excitement. On the basement walls hung 990 pictures: oils by Pierre Bonnard, Henri Matisse, Georges Rouault, Albert Marquet and Fėlix Vallotton, a whole wallful of paintings by Paul Gauguin, only six months dead in his Pacific island paradise...
...first Paris salon to stage a retrospective exhibition, devoting a whole room to the works of Cezanne. In 1905 the Salon got what it needed to become a popular fixture: a first-class scandal. Fauvism, expressed in the wildly colored canvases of les fauves (the wild beasts, e.g., Matisse, Marquet, Derain and Vlaminck), caused an artistic riot. Respectable gentlemen insulted each other, shook their ivory-capped canes at the canvases. Raged one critic: "A pot of paint has been thrown in the face of the public...
Matisse compared old friend Marquet's sketches to those of Master Japanese Draftsman Hokusai. Said Paris-Presse Critic René Barotte: "It is difficult to express more life in fewer lines . . . impossible to use black and white better...
...Marquet had not taken his little masterpieces that seriously. During his lifetime, he sketched thousands of them for his own entertainment, stacked them away in his studio without ever thinking of exhibiting or selling them...