Maurice de Vlaminck

Vlaminck, Maurice de 

Born Apr. 4, 1876, in Paris; died Oct. 11, 1958, in Rueil-la-Gadeliere, in Orleans. French painter.

Vlaminck was a self-educated exponent of fauvism who was influenced by Vincent Van Gogh and Paul Cézanne. His early landscapes are dynamic in composition (Red Trees, 1906, National Museum of Modern Art in Paris; and Barges on the Seine, 1907, A. S. Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts in Moscow) full of tense contrasts and dazzlingly bright colors; his later landscapes (Rueil-la-Gadelière, beginning of the 1930’s, private collection) are distinguished by dramatic expressiveness and heavy, gloomy colors. Vlaminck also painted portraits and still lifes and did some easel drawings and black-and-white book illustrations.

REFERENCE

Selz, J. Vlaminck. Paris, 1963