The Window at La Goulette

Albert Marquet was a French painter associated with the Fauvist movement. He enjoyed a lifelong friendship with Henri Matisse. Marquet subsequently painted in a more naturalistic style, primarily landscapes, but also several portraits and, between 1910 and 1914, several female nude paintings.

From 1907 to his death, Marquet alternated between working in his studio in Paris and many parts of the European coast and in North Africa. He was most involved with Algeria and Algiers and with Tunisia. In his voyages he painted the sea and ships, but also the lights and animated life of the city, especially cities on the waterfront, like Algiers. At the beginning of 1926 Marquet rented a house on the Tunisian port of La Goulette for several weeks: he liked it more than in Carthage where there was, he said, "no foreground, barely enough to make three or four paintings."  This calm and smooth painting was created there.

P.S. Marquet wasn't the only Fauvist to travel to North Africa for inspiration. Let's travel to Morocco in the footsteps of Henri Matisse. 

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