Born in Bordeaux, Pierre-Albert Marquet moved to Paris in 1890 to study at the École des Arts Decoratifs, where he met Henri Matisse. In 1895, he started studying at the École des Beaux-Arts, under Gustave Moreau. Marquet would remain there until 1898, and met Charles Camoin, Henri Manguin, and Georges Rouault. During this period, the artist increasingly painted landscapes and nudes with the vibrant colours and bold brushwork associated with Fauvism, as well as employing the dark outlines of Cloisonnism. Marquet exhibited at the Salon des Indépendants from 1901, and featured in the infamous Salon d’Automne of 1905, when his paintings were amongst those deemed ‘fauve’. Marquet had solo exhibitions with Berthe Weill and at the Galerie Druet during the 1900s, as well as exhibitions in Russia and Ukraine. From 1907, he alternated between working in his studio in Paris and traveling around Europe and North Africa, particularly Algeria and Tunisia. He would meet his wife, Marcelle Martinet, on his first stay in Algiers in 1920. They married in 1923. Unlike his close friend Matisse, Marquet’s style never changed radically after his Fauvist period; his work became increasingly naturalistic with a subtle, though nevertheless intense, tonality evocative of the play of light. Marquet’s work can be found in the following selected international collections: the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; Art Institute of Chicago; National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMoMA); the State Hermitage, St. Petersburg; Musée National d'Art Moderne, Centre Pompidou, Paris; Musée d’Orsay, Paris; Musée des Beaux-Arts de Bordeaux; the Tate Collection, London.