Maurice de Vlaminck
The Fishermen, 1907
On view
8 further works by Vlaminck
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Oil on canvas, 60 x 73 cm
Signed and dated lower left: Vlaminck 1907
Inv.-no. MB-Vla-04
Maurice de Vlaminck contrasts the activity of fishing, which is associated with quiet, patient waiting, with the impatience of his brushwork. Among the Fauves, he was the only artist who identified with the attribute of wildness – fauve means “wild.” The fact that he had taught himself to paint, like Vincent van Gogh, made his identification with this role model even stronger.
Modern Art Classics: Liebermann, Munch, Nolde, Kandinsky, Museum Barberini, Potsdam, January 23–May 28, 2017
Impressionism: The Hasso Plattner Collection, Museum Barberini, Potsdam, from September 5, 2020
June 15, 1927, Hôtel Drouot,
Paris, lot 63
M. Aubry, acquired at the above sale
February 27, 1928, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, lot 166
Gaston Lévy, acquired at the above sale
ca. 1933, René Toupet, Paris
n.d., Private collection, France, inherited from the above
February 5, 2007, Sotheby’s, London, lot 63, consigned by the above
n.d., Private collection
December 2010, Art trade
Maïthé Vallès-Bled, Vlaminck: Catalogue critique des peintures et céramiques de la période fauve, 1900–1907, Paris 2008, no. 193, p. 420, ill. p. 421
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