Maurice de VLAMINCK - The chestnut grove at Chatou, 1906, Mourlot lithograph

Maurice de Vlaminck : Born in Paris in 1876, Maurice de Vlaminck is a french painter. He truly began painting in 1899, with Derain, who shared a workshop with him until 1901. In 1904, at Berthe Weill, one of his paintings was put on public display for the first time. In 1905, the artist participated to the Salon d'automne and Salon des indépendants. He was in the "cage aux fauves" with other artists like Derain, Matisse or Braque. He only began to live of his painting in 1906 (Vollard bought his entire workshop). His first solo exhibition was at the Vollard gallery in 1907. He also wrote about twenty novels, poems and essays (D'un lit à l'autre (1902), Portraits avant décès (1943)...). Between 1904 and 1907 Vlaminck joined Fauvism. His admiration for Cézanne led him to join Cubism a short time (1910). But Vlaminck came back to a style most closely conforming to his temperament, that he would remain faithful to until his death : very mixed dark colors. The intensive use of vermilion, black and white gave a dramatic and violent aspect to his paintings. Roads and wheat fields are his favorite themes. He also realized watercolors, woods and lithographs. The artist died in Rueil-la-Gadelière (France) in 1958.

Walker Art Center (The USA)
Museum of Modern Art of Troyes (France)
Museum of Art and History of Neuchâtel (Switzerland)
EG Bührle Collection Foundation (Switzerland)
Das Museum Folkwang (Germany)
The Bridgestone Museum of art Ishibashi Foundation (Japan)
The Orsay Museum (France)
Nantes Fine Arts Museum (France)
The Thyssen Bornemisza Collection (Spain)
Bordeaux Museum of Fine Arts (France)
Queensland Art Gallery (Australia)
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Nykytaiteen museum Kiasma (Finland)
Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery (United Kingdom)
Ashmolean Museum of Art (United Kingdom)
Carnegie Museum of art (The USA)
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Winnipeg Art Gallery (Canada)
National Gallery of Art, Washington (The USA)
The Tel Aviv Museum of Art (Israel)
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Strasbourg Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art (France)
Statens Museum for Kunst (Denmark)
Grenoble Museum (France)
KunstMuseum Bern (Switzerland)
Center Pompidou - National Museum of Modern Art (France)
Boca Raton Museum of art (The USA)
Kunstmuseum Luzern (Switzerland)
MNBA - Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes - Argentina (Argentina)
Orleans Fine Arts Museum (France)
Fine Arts Museum of Algiers (Algeria)
Calvet Museum (France)
Cantonal Museum of Fine Arts, Lausanne (Switzerland)
Cantor Art Center - The Stanford University Museum of Art, Stanford (The USA)
Bemberg Foundation (France)
Toulouse-Lautrec Museum (France)
Jonas Netter Collection (France)
Amos Anderson Art Museum (Finland)
Werner and Gabrielle Merzbacher collection (Switzerland)
National Museum of Western Art & Matsukata Collection (Japan)
Museo Nacional de Artes Visuales (Uruguay)
Staatliche Kunsthalle Karlsruhe (Germany)
The University of Oklahoma Museum of Art (The USA)
Tate Collection (United Kingdom)
Des Moines Art Center (The USA)
New National Museum of Monaco (Monaco)
Saint Louis Museum of Art (The USA)
University of Warwick Art Collection (United Kingdom)
Utah Museum of Fine Art (The USA)
The Modern Museum in Sweden - Moderna Museet (Sweden)
Chartres Museum of Fine Arts (France)
Memorial Art Gallery Rochester (The USA)
Museum of Fine Arts, Montreal (Canada)
Ohara Museum of Art (Japan)
Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum (The USA)
Wallraf-Richartz-Museum & Corboud Foundation (Germany)
Hamburger Kunsthalle (Germany)
Huntington Gallery of Art (The USA)
Die Hermann und Margrit Rupf-Stiftung (Switzerland)
Marcel Dessal Museum of Art and History - Dreux (France)
Pully Museum (Switzerland)
Gelonch Viladegut collection