Albert Marquet, Promenade am Fluss A barge moored on the riverbank in front of a broad promenade lined with bare trees with a few passers-by and factories with chimneys in the background in front of an implied chain of hills, quiet scenery bathed in the light of a cloudy winter's day, the artist probably found the motif on one of his study trips, which took him to various regions of France from 1906, slightly impasto painting in muted colours, oil on canvas, around 1910, signed "Marquet" at bottom right, the painting was restored in 2018 by Prof. Dipl. Ing. Dr. Manfred Schreiner (Professor of Colour Theory and Colour Chemistry at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna) carried out scientific examinations on the painting in 2018, which showed that the pigments used do not indicate that it was created during the artist's lifetime, the X-rays show that no preparatory drawing exists and that the signature was created at the same time as the painting, the sparing use of partly inferior painting materials speaks in favour of a dating to around 1910, Marquet had a close friendship with Henri Matisse since the end of the 19th century, the two painters were both sparingly used. According to Matisse, the muted colour scheme may not only have been due to Marquet's creative aspirations at first - the latter simply did not have enough money to buy paints at the beginning, This was particularly true for the expensive cadmium-based paints of the time, which is why he initially painted mainly in shades of grey, so what first made Marquet a Fauvist, unlike Derain and Matisse, was not the radiance of the colours, but the simplification of the form (sources: Website Musée d'art moderne André Malraux, Jean Claude Martinet and Guy Wildenstein, Marquet. L'Afrique du Nord, Catalogue de l'ouevre peint, Paris 2001), canvas pasted over with paper in the area of the nailing and on the reverse of the stretcher, colour shrinkage cracks, backed area and some retouches, in need of restoration, attractive frame, folded dimensions 38 x 46 cm, enclosed examination report. Artist information: actually Pierre Léopold Albert Marquet, French painter of the Fauvism. Fauvist painter (1875 Bordeaux - 1947 Paris), initially attended school in Bordeaux, moved to Paris in 1890, studied there at the École nationale des arts décoratifs, from 1892 acquaintance and lifelong friendship with Henri Matisse, from 1895 studied at the École nationale supérieure des beaux-arts de Paris under Gustave Moreau, 1898 transferred to the private art academy in the Rue de Rennes Paris, 1899 First participation in an exhibition at the Salon de la Société nationale des beaux-arts, 1900 Worked with Matisse at the Grand Palais of the Paris World Exhibition, attended the Paris Salon d'Automne in 1905 with André Derain, Henri Matisse and Maurice de Vlaminck - the artists provoked a scandal here with their innovative painting, which led the influential conservative art critic Louis Vauxcelles (1870-1943) to coin the term "Fauvism" in an exhibition review in October 1905.From 1906 he travelled through France, Germany, Russia and Scandinavia, 1920 first stay in Algiers, 1928 Nile cruise, 1940-45 active in Algiers, then back in Paris, source: Thieme-Becker, Vollmer, Saur "Bio-Bibliographisches Künstlerlexikon", Bénézit and Wikipedia.