Albert Marquet in Pushkin
ARTinvestment.RU   08 сентября 2016

The exhibition will acquaint with the work of French artist from the early "Algerian sketches to later paintings of the Marche with views of the Paris quays and squares

the Pushkin Museum. A. S. Pushkin,
27 September 2016 – January 8 2017
Gallery art in Europe and America of XIX – XX centuries
Moscow, Volkhonka, 14

Pushkin recently right-таки dispersed: Rafael and Piranesi in 2016-м, virtual reality, Goya in 2017-м. A unique exhibition of the top foreign authors are able to organize, in spite of any sanctions. Well done.

in Parallel with the notoriously well-known and popular Rafael 27 Sep 2016 kicks off the more "chamber" exhibition "albert Marquet. Open window. Works from museums and private collections of Russia and France". And since in the world of collectors all look at each other, it is no doubt that the exhibition will challenge those of our collectors who have not yet been acquainted with the work of Marche. It is therefore useful to proactively look at the market. And the market the French impressionist Marche is very interesting.

Start with the fact that the artist it is liquid. In the year exhibiting 80 paintings by albert Marquet (excluding figures). It's okay, a lot. With more than 70% sold – also very good. Marche — artist is known, it is bought by collectors all over the world. But St it it is about how our sixties the first row — that is, the artists are important, but the objective of local values. Auction market in the world of its operation of approximately 40x60 are in the range 30 000 – 70 000 dollars., less $ 100,000. A small 30 × 40 landscapes are in the area 20 000 – 30 000 $. Particularly interesting stories (inspired types of the Seine), and other good works of the order of meters to get to the area of $ 200,000.

In the entire history of auction sales only four times the picture was taken in the bar of $ 1,000,000. on the auctions. Twice in the legendary 2008. The record was set at Sotheby's: a painting of 1906, "Beach St-Андрессе" was sold for $ 2.4 million.

albert Marquet travelled extensively, and in 1934 even came to Russia. In our country had by that time had many admirers and followers among artists. The Pushkin Museum recalls that the admirers of the French painter had a separate alumni VKhUTEMAS – Vhuteina 1920-х years, representatives of the Moscow group "13" and the Leningrad Association "Circle of artists". They solved a similar plastic problems, the only sources of inspiration in the landscapes of Russian artists was not Paris and Algeria, and Moscow and Leningrad. The works of these Russian artists will also be included in the exhibition.

Vladimir Bogdanov, AI

Source: arts-museum.ru