Maurice de VLAMINCK (1876-1958) - Lot 185

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Maurice de VLAMINCK (1876-1958) - Lot 185
Maurice de VLAMINCK (1876-1958) Bouquet of white flowers in a gray vase Oil on canvas. Signed lower right 65 x 50 cm Provenance: Sotheby's New-York sale, May 9, 2001. This late work by Vlaminck reveals all the chromatic boldness and spirited talent of the self-taught artist. Marked by his Fauvist experience and his great admiration for Van Gogh, Vlaminck infuses this banal, desolate subject with emotional power and tragic lyricism. The painter's speed is astonishing: he hastily sweeps his canvas with broad strokes of white and gray and deep blacks, and even applies impasto straight from the tube in his haste. Maurice de Vlaminck's flower vases occupy a singular place in his work: far from being mere decorative exercises, they become experimental grounds for free, instinctive painting. Heir to Fauvism and deeply influenced by Vincent van Gogh, Vlaminck favored the power of color and the spontaneity of gesture over fidelity to reality. This bouquet of white flowers is treated energetically, almost brutally: forms are simplified, and the pictorial material, applied in thick impasto, gives the flowers a vibrant presence. Even in his later works, where the palette can darken, these still lifes retain a marked expressive intensity, oscillating between brilliance and melancholy. Maurice de Vlaminck's vase of flowers is not an insignificant motif: it becomes the site of a tension between life and decline, light and darkness, where painting expresses above all an inner state. The cost of certification by the Wildenstein Plattner Institute will be borne by the purchaser.
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