ALBERT MARQUET in Japan • Second stop: Kurume City!: Exposition Muséale
"We are honored to contribute to this retrospective, which invites Japanese audiences to rediscover the sensitivity and modernity of Albert Marquet, a major painter of landscape and light in the 20th Century. These loans reflect Galerie de la Presidence's commitment to promoting French artistic heritage abroad."
Florence Chibret-Plaussu
Director of Galerie de la Présidence
ALBERT MARQUET A RETROSPECTIVE, IN JAPAN
FROM 11 APRIL TO 13 DECEMBER 2026
Event-Exhibition dedicated to Albert Marquet touring Japan from 11 April to 13 December 2026, organized by four major Japanese museums and Kyodo News (Famous national press agency in Japan).
- The second stop of the exhibition tour now begins at the Kurume City Art Museum (Fukuoka Prefecture), on Kyushu, the southwesternmost of Japan's main islands. It hosts Marquet from June 9th to July 29th, 2026, as part of the museum's 10th anniversary celebrations!
No less than 90 works are presented, including around 60 oils and 30 pastels and drawings, lent by major museums and galleries as well as private collectors in France and Japan. These include significant loans from the Musée des Beaux-Arts de Bordeaux (MusBa), the Musée d’Art Moderne André Malraux – Le Havre (MuMa), and the Musée des Beaux-Arts et d’Archéologie de Besançon (MBAA). One third of the works comes from Japanese collections.
Galerie de la Présidence is contributing to the exhibition by lending—directly or through its involvement—no fewer than 15 works (13 oils and 2 pastels).
Curated by the 4 above Japanese museums, this is the first exhibition devoted to Albert Marquet in Japan in 35 years. Celebrating the 150th anniversary of his birth, the retrospective invites Japanese and Southeast Asian audiences to discover—or rediscover—the French master, offering a fresh reading and new perspectives on his work.
Marquet was first exhibited in Japan in 1920, at a time when the country was also discovering the Impressionist canvases of Monet and Renoir. It was during these same years that several renowned Japanese collectors—such as Kôjirô Matsukata (National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo) and Magosaburô Ohara (Ohara Museum of Art, Kurashiki)—acquired a number of Marquet’s major works. Today, more than 60 of Marquet’s works are held in Japanese collections.
A bilingual catalogue illustrating all the works on display is published for the occasion, featuring essays by French and Japanese art historians.
