Word: vlamincks
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...went to the museums," he said, "as I went to brothels-but I never Vent upstairs.' " Vlaminck painted at first, with no thought of exhibiting his work. "To be a painter," he once said, "is not a business, any more than to be an anarchist, lover, racer, dreamer, or prizefighter...
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...
...Artist. Where the painter of these remarkable canvases might be, nobody who looked at them knew. After France fell, 67-year-old Vlaminck (rhymes with plank) was reported to be well treated by the Nazis (TIME, June 9, 1941). Since then nothing more has been heard of him. Maurice de Vlaminck's father was a Belgian who taught music in Paris. Tall and athletic, young Maurice first supported himself as a professional bicycle racer, later as a Paris nightclub musician. But his real passion was painting...
...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...