Special Envoy to Le Havre (Seine-Maritime)
In his self-portrait dating from 1904, behind his bésicles, Albert Marquet (1875-1947) blinks. This is a nice way, without salamalecs or theories, to invite us to taste his painting. This look also frames us. Perhaps to register one day in one of its cherished coastal landscapes. Those of whom, even before the first Fauve success met at the Salon d'Automne of 1905 in the company of friends Matisse, Camoin, Derain, Manguin and Vlaminck, this child of the Gironde and the Atlantic had made a specialty. Those in the distance, cavalierly grasped from a window, some anonymous passer-by, humble and perfectly accurate silhouette, sometimes evoked by means of a single touch of ink black in the manner of Japanese master calligraphers.
In Le Havre, the André Malraux Museum (MuMa) brings together Norman views. At the head of this institution for twenty-two years, Annette Haudiquet retired last January. While waiting for his...
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