Lithograph on vélin du Canson & Montgolfier Vidalon-Les-Annonay paper. Unsigned and unnumbered. Paper Size: 12.5 x 9.75 inches. Excellent condition. Notes: From the album, Marquet, 1948. Published by George Besson, Paris; printed by Les Éditions Braun & Cie, Mulhouse-Dornach, Paris, Lyon. Excerpted from the album (translated from French), This album, the fourth of the "Plastique" collection published under the direction of George Besson, was printed on vélin Vidalon paper by Braun & Cie, Mulhouse-Dornach, Paris, Lyon. ALBERT MARQUET (1875-1947) was a French painter. He initially became one of the Fauve painters and a lifelong friend of Henri Matisse and in the milieu of Picasso. Marquet subsequently painted in a more naturalistic style, primarily landscapes, but also several portraits and, between 1910 and 1914, several female nude paintings. In 1905 he exhibited at the Salon d'Automne where his paintings were put together with those of Henri Matisse, Maurice de Vlaminck, André Derain, Othon Friesz, Georges Rouault, Raoul Dufy, Henri Manguin, Georges Braque, Louis Valtat, Georges Dufrénoy and Jean Puy. Dismayed by the intense coloration in these paintings, critics reacted by naming the artists the "Fauves", i.e. the wild beasts. Although Marquet painted with the fauves for years, he used less bright and violent colors than the others, and emphasized less intense tones made by mixing complementaries, thus always as colors and never as grays. Marquet subsequently painted in a more naturalistic style, primarily landscapes.