Word: vlaminck
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week the walls of Manhattan's Lilienfeld Galleries suggested a gusty day. On view were works by Maurice de Vlaminck, the "poet of bad weather." There are 18 of them-atmospherically ominous paintings, small French towns under wintry or stormy skies, harbors, fields and flowers...
...Last week news came from Germany that a group of top-flight Left-Bank painters and sculptors (some of them formerly listed by Hitler's Kulturkammer as "degenerate artists") were touring and lecturing in Germany as guests of the Third Reich. The guests: Painters Andre Derain, Maurice de Vlaminck, Andre Dunoyer de Segonzac, Cornelius van Dongen, Othon Friesz, Sculptors Paul Maximiliaen Landowski, Charles Despiau. Notably not there was the name of pre-war Paris' greatest painter, bulky Spanish-born Pablo Picasso, who presumably had had the guts to decline the invitation...
...Still sticking to their beloved Paris, Hitler or no, were six of the most famed figures in contemporary art: Pablo Picasso, Georges Braque, André Derain, Georges Rouault, Maurice de Vlaminck, Marcel Duchamp. To them the German army of occupation had extended special privileges, including an extra ration of coal...