Albert Marque

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Albert Marque (born July 14, 1872 in Nanterre , Hauts-de-Seine department ; † May 1939 ) was a French sculptor and doll maker of the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

life and work

Marque as a sculptor

Room VII of the Salon d'Automne, Grand Palais, Paris, 1905. Jacqueline Marval is seated on the left of Marques sculpture, on the right Jules Flandrin . Louis Valtat and Albert Marque can also be seen.

The Marque, born in Nanterre in 1872, became known for his sculptures of children at the turn of the 20th century .

Marque is occasionally confused with Albert Marquet , a French Fauvist painter who was three years younger. The term " fauvism " is derived from the French word fauves ("wild beasts"). When a small group of painters, including Marquet and Henri Matisse with his painting Femme au chapeau ( Woman in a Hat) , exhibited their avant-garde pictures in Room VII of the Salon d'Automne in October 1905 , the art critic Louis Vauxcelles saw a woman between the paintings Florentine-style sculpture by Albert Marque. Vauxcelles' exclamation: "Tiens, Donatello au milieu des fauves." ("Look, Donatello surrounded by wild beasts.") Coined the name of the short-term art movement Fauvism .

A. Marque dolls

During the First World War , at the suggestion of the Parisian fashion house of Jeanne Margaine-LaCroix, Marque created 100 fashion dolls that were dressed by the fashion house. The heads and bodies of the 55 cm tall dolls were made according to Marques shapes by the Manufacture royale de porcelaine de Sèvres . The artist gave the dolls the signature A. Marque in the neck area. In 1915 the dolls were exhibited in Paris . Some were sold, the rest stayed with the fashion house. The clothes often represented those of the French nobility or the peasants. They were seen as artistic works of France and, in wartime, an answer to the popular German dolls, created for adults rather than children.

They are highly valued by doll collectors and are sold at top prices. On March 29, 2014, a doll boy with the number 27 set the world record in doll auctions. The auction at Theriault's in Annapolis, Maryland raised $ 300,000. The previous world record was $ 263,000 in June 2009, which was also paid for a Marque doll.

In her catalog for the Doll Artisan Guild, Ragnhild Margareta Ericson names 25 well-known A. Marque dolls. Stuart Holbrook, director of the leading doll auction house, Theriault's, explained that there are only about 20 A. Marque dolls left and called them the "Holy Grail of collectors".

literature

  • Hans Vollmer : General Lexicon of Fine Artists of the XX. Century. 6 volumes. EA Seemann, Leipzig 1953–1962
  • François Theimer: Albert Marque: un sculpteur, une poupée. Éditions Polichinelle, Toucy 2008, ISBN 978-2-910858-03-2
  • Juliet Peers: The Fashion Doll: From Bebe Jumeau to Barbie. Berg, New York 2004, ISBN 978-1-85973-743-9

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Notice bibliographique: Albert Marque in the Bibliothèque nationale de France
  2. ↑ Attribution of the persons: see picture source
  3. ↑ a b c Juliet Peers: The Fashion Doll: from Bebe Jumeau to Barbie . Berg, 2005, pp. 115-16.
  4. ↑ Gazette des beaux-arts, 1925/07 (A67, T12) -1925/12; p.283 Gallica BnF
  5. ^ Louis Vauxcelles, Le Salon d'Automne , Gil Blas, October 17, 1905. Screen 5 and 6. Gallica, Bibliothèque nationale de France , ISSN  1149-9397
  6. ^ Russell T. Clement: Les Fauves . Greenwood Publishing Group, 1994, pp. Xi-xii.
  7. ^ French doll shatters world auction record . In: Antique Trader . August 5, 2009. Retrieved August 11, 2009.
  8. ↑ Charlotte, 55 cm, 1915, Albert Marque ( Memento from December 22, 2015 in the Internet Archive ), infopoupees.com, accessed on December 11, 2015
  9. ^ Albert Marque un sculpteur, une poupée , lepuitsauxlivres.com
  10. ^ Albert Marque (1872–1939) ( Memento from December 22, 2015 in the Internet Archive ), infopoupees.com, accessed on December 14, 2015
  11. ↑ Antique Doll Sells for $ 300,000 and Sets New World Auction Record , prnewswire.com, accessed December 11, 2015
  12. ^ Ragnhild Margareta Ericson: Albert Marque dolls, their original costumes and labeling . Doll Artisans Guild. July 24, 2009. Archived from the original on July 10, 2011. Retrieved on April 25, 2010.
  13. ^ Carey Ferg: Albert Marque Doll Sets New World Auction Record . In: Dolls Magazine . Jones Publishing. July 24, 2009. Retrieved August 11, 2009.
personal data
SURNAME Marque, Albert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French sculptor and doll maker
DATE OF BIRTH July 14, 1872
PLACE OF BIRTH Nanterre
DATE OF DEATH May 1939