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...final 40, most famous years of his life, Maurice de Vlaminck was renowned as "the poet of stormy skies...
...farmhouse in the north of France, the artist slathered paint on hundreds of moody, windswept landscapes and chunky, darkly lit still lifes. These form the basis of his popular reputation in museums around the world. Little in the dour, somber tones of these pictures indicates that Vlaminck first made his mark as a member of the Fauves, the "wild beasts" whose savagely colored canvases so shocked Paris at the Salon d'Automne...
...that time, the sun shone in Vlaminck's pictures with greater fire and brilliance than in those of any fellow Fauve, including Matisse, Braque or Derain. Two dozen of these early paintings recently gathered together for an exhibit by Manhattan Dealer Klaus Perls showed the public what had rarely been seen by any but a few diligent art historians: Vlaminck's early work, taut with a passionate precision, is the finest of his career (see color...
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...