Maurice de Vlaminck Original Vintage Antique French Fauve Post Impressionist Oil Painting Sailboats
Original vintage post-impressionist French fauve oil painting of sailboats, by Maurice de Vlaminck, (1876-1958).
Maurice de Vlaminck (1876 – 1958) was a French painter, who, along with André Derain and Henri Matisse, is considered one of the principal figures in the Fauve movement. The Fauves were a group of modern artists, who were united in their use of intense color. Vlaminck exhibited at the controversial Salon d'Automne exhibition of 1905 with Henri Matisse, André Derain, Albert Marquet, Kees van Dongen, Charles Camoin, and Jean Puy. After viewing the boldly colored canvases of the group, the art critic Louis Vauxcelles disparaged the painters as "Fauves" ("wild beasts"), thus giving their movement the name by which it became known, Fauvism.
Maurice de Vlaminck was born on Rue Pierre Lescot in Paris. His father Edmond Julien was Flemish and taught violin and his mother Joséphine Caroline Grillet came from Lorraine and taught piano. His father taught him to play the violin. He began painting in his late teens. In 1893, he studied with a painter named Henri Rigalon on the Île de Chatou. In 1894 he married Suzanne Berly. The turning point in his life was a chance meeting on the train to Paris towards the end of his stint in the army. Vlaminck, then 23, met an aspiring artist, André Derain, with whom he struck up a lifelong friendship. When Vlaminck completed his army service in 1900, the two rented a studio together, the Maison Levanneur which now houses the Cneai, for a year before Derain left to do his own military service. For the next few years Vlaminck lived in or near Chatou (the inspiration for his painting houses at Chatou), painting and exhibiting alongside Derain, Matisse, and other Fauvist painters. At this time his exuberant paint application and vibrant use of color displayed the influence of Vincent van Gogh. In 1902 and 1903, he wrote several novels; illustrated by Derain. He painted during the day and earned his livelihood by giving violin lessons and performing with musical bands at night.
In 1911, Vlaminck traveled to London and painted by the Thames. In 1913, he painted again with Derain in Marseille and Martigues. In World War I he was stationed in Paris and began writing poetry. Eventually, he settled in Rueil-la-Gadelière, a small village southwest of Paris. He married his second wife, Berthe Combes, with whom he had two daughters. From 1925, he traveled throughout France but continued to paint primarily along the Seine, near Paris. Resentful that Fauvism had been overtaken by Cubism as an art movement Vlaminck blamed Picasso, "for dragging French painting into a wretched dead end and state of confusion". During the Second World War Vlaminck visited Germany and on his return published a tirade against Picasso and Cubism in the periodical Comoedia in June 1942.
Vlaminck died in Rueil-la-Gadelière on 11 October 1958.
Maurice de Vlaminck
(1876 – 1958)
French Fauve, Post Impressionist
Estimated at 1905
Boats, Sailboats
Compositionally comparable to Maurice de Vlaminck's "Les Barques", (The Boats)
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The painting measures approximately 10" X 13", plus the original antique French frame
Signed lower middle in black, lower right in faded pencil/graphite, and a small bit of a signature to the left, in light blue, ("V" the most prominent, in blue)
Oil on Board
An oil study by the artist is verso
Painting is still housed in original French, gold painted, wood, antique frame.
The painting is in very good original condition. No overpaints, restorations or chemical cleanings have been performed. There is some darkening/ aging of the board, and the painting, over the years. There are a couple of places where either the paint has had some degrading, or it may have been the artist's intention, with the layering effects. Please review the images.
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