Maurice de Vlaminck (1876-1958)
Lot 346 Property from The Museum of Modern Art, sold to benefit the Acquisitions Fund

Maurice de Vlaminck (1876-1958)

Paysage

Closed2 November 2011

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Maurice de Vlaminck (1876-1958)
Paysage
signed 'Vlaminck' (lower left)
oil on canvas
28 5/8 x 36¼ in. (72.6 x 92.1 cm.)
Painted circa 1916-1917

Reinhardt Galleries, New York (by 1927).
Mr. and Mrs. Walter Hochschild (acquired from the above, 1927).
Gift from the above to the present owner, 1964.

Specialist note

Maïthé Vallès-Bled and Godelieve de Vlaminck will include this painting in their forthcoming Maurice de Vlaminck catalogue critique currently being prepared under the sponsorship of the Wildenstein Institute.

Vlaminck primarily absorbed Paul Cézanne's lessons on building form through careful planar construction; the bold recession and sustained tension of Paysage owes an obvious debt to the 'ordered sensations' of Cézanne and offered Vlaminck a convincing alternative to the perceived formlessness of Fauve landscapes. Furthermore, the increasingly naturalistic use of blues, greens and ochres, that was to characterize his work in the years to come, also recalls Cézanne's palette.