Maurice de Vlaminck

The Forest, 1914–1918

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Oil on canvas, 60 x 73 cm
Signed lower right: Vlaminck
Inv.-no. MB-Vla-08

 Vlaminck recalled the early history of Impressionism in the forest of Fontainebleau with this path in the underbrush. Broad and expressive impasto gives the composition a strong geometric structure. Vlaminck’s incentive to paint abstractly is an intensification of Claude Monet’s motto: it is not important what you paint, but how you paint it.

+ Exhibitions

Vlaminck 1876–1958, Museu de Arte Brasileira, São Paulo, March 9–April 8, 2001

Impressionism: The Hasso Plattner Collection, Museum Barberini, Potsdam, from September 5, 2020

+ Provenance

n.d., Private collection, Bordeaux
by 2001, Galerie de la Présidence, Paris
January 2007, purchased from a private collection

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