Albert Marquet: From Fauvism to Impressionism

The official name of the show I attended at the Fort Lauderdale Museum of Art was entitled Albert Marquet from the Pompidou, as all of the pieces displayed (45 paintings and 20 drawings) were on loan from the Pompidou Center in Paris. The time span of the works ranged from the early 1900’s to the late 1940’s. Marquet’s work is described as somewhat impressionistic, and out of the 65 items on display, I focused on six: two works I especially enjoyed, two I didn’t particularly connect with, and a remaining two that I felt relatively neutral about.
Entitled Portrait d’un journaliste americain, (1934), this sketch was done in China ink on plain paper and was approximately 10 inches by 8 inches. Marquet used straight, vertical lines, which were simple and direct. The journalist was a square-faced man in his late 40’s to early 50’s. Dressed in a plain button-down shirt and an equally simple tie, with a single–button vest underneath an ordinary blazer, nothing really...