“Our first Salon des Independants, where I think we [Matisse and Marquet] were the only two painters to express ourselves in pure colors, was in 1901.”

— Albert Marquet

Gordon Brown, 'Albert Marquet', Arts Magazine Vol. 46, November 1971, p. 49.

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