Word: vlaminck
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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This prodigious output has long since made the author a millionaire. Simenon's house at Epalinges, a small Swiss village near Lausanne, has 26 rooms, 21 telephones, portraits of its owner by Buffet, Vlaminck and Cocteau. But the house is more important as a mark of contentment for the Liège-born Simenon, who shares it with Second Wife Denise, their three children and a livery of servants. Previously, his restlessness pushed him for varying periods into 30 residences around the world as well as into a sloop on which he cruised through Europe. Simenon even...
...Picasso for $430,000, believed to be a record for the Rose Period. A fauve-period Dufy, Les Trois Ombrellas, was bought by Houston's John Beck for $140,000, double the auction high set for a Dufy only three years ago. But dreary works by Vlaminck, Van Dongen and lesser artists were also bid skyhigh. Still, some paintings failed to meet their reserve price (at which the owner prefers to keep possession rather than sell). Claude Monet's loving yet sharp-focused portrait of his wife, Madame Camille Monet, was pegged at $800,000. When bidding stopped...
Rock-Hard Canvases. Vlaminck did his best oils in 1905 and 1906, when he lived in the small Seine-side Paris suburb of Chatou. The burly, Belgian-descended artist had been a professional cyclist and cabaret violinist who taught himself to paint. In later years, he recalled: "I was a barbarian, tender and full of violence. I translated by instinct, without any method." In fact, his method of squeezing colors directly from the paint tubes onto the canvas was largely inspired by viewing the Van Gogh exhibition of 1901. In addition, portraits such as L'Enfant Madeline betray...
...retrospective. Before long, palettes all over Montmartre darkened as artists imitated Cezanne's can vases, which emphasized structure at the expense of color. The result was cubism, which is based in part on Cezanne's injunction: "Nature must be treated through the cylinder, the sphere, the cone." Vlaminck tried his hand at cubism, but with no great success. After four years in the French army, he emerged to develop his later moody, tempestuous vision; to the end of his days, he reviled Picasso as "the gravedigger of French...
Fauvism lasted but two years-no longer than many present-day artistic vogues. Yet for Vlaminck, by virtue of his youth, temperament and training-or rather, lack of it-it was the right movement at the right time. He transmuted its gaudy splendors into rockhard canvases that can be looked at again and again without their seeming to fade or weaken. By the age of 30, he had attained heights he never regained in a long lifetime of painting. He also recorded, for later generations, the candor and gaiety of a placid era and countryside that were soon...