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Maurice de VLAMINCK
(French, 1876-1958)
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Daten.d.
Mediumgouache on paper
Dimensionscanvas: 18 × 21 in. (45.7 × 53.3 cm)
frame: 25 × 28 1/2 × 2 1/2 in. (63.5 × 72.4 × 6.4 cm)
ClassificationPAINTINGS
Credit LineSBMA, Gift of Jack Jungmeyer, Jr. and Edith Skouras Jungmeyer
Object number2015.44.9
Collection
- 20th century French
On View
On viewLabel TextThis winter landscape is characteristic of Vlaminck’s late style, which used a dark palette to depict landscapes, often in serial studies of the same scene. Such an approach was characteristic of many modern artists, who often explored the same subject matter repeatedly. These paintings were a significant departure from Vlaminck’s earlier Fauve works, which were painted in vivid, exaggerated color; they instead suggest the artist’s turn away from avant-garde experimentation and toward more conservative styles, reflecting the “return to order” that took place between the World Wars. Vlaminck would find a receptive audience for such styles in fascist Germany, where his Fauve works were previously denounced.