Mar 04, 2021 - Sale 2560

Sale 2560 - Lot 299

Price Realized: $ 42,500
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 20,000 - $ 30,000
MAURICE DE VLAMINCK
Rue de Village.

Oil on canvas, circa 1945. 380x455 mm; 15 1/8x18 inches. Signed in oil, lower right recto.

Ex-collection private collection, New York.

Vlaminck (1876-1958) is considered a leader of the Fauve movement. Born in Paris, he started painting as a teenager and was largely a self-taught artist. Inspired after seeing Van Gogh's work exhibited in Paris, he began to use bold colors and brushstrokes in his work . In 1905, he exhibited at the Salon d'Automne (alongside Derain and Matisse), the exhibition at which the critic Louis Vauxcelles called the artists wild beasts or fauves, giving the name to the art movement. He experimented by applying unmixed paint directly from the tube to the canvas and deviating from literal representation to expressive color. Later in his career, he used darked tones and figurative realism often depicitng rural landscapes, like the current work.