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Learn MoreFleurs dans un vase by Maurice de Vlaminck
- This brilliant floral still life was painted by important French artist Maurice de Vlaminck
- Inspired by van Gogh, Vlaminck pursued bold colors and energetic brushwork in his finest canvases
- The artist was renowned in his day, exhibiting alongside greats such as Matisse and Derain
- His works belong to important collections including the Met and MoMA
- Get complete item description here
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Description
Maurice de Vlaminck
1876-1958 | French
Fleurs dans un vase
(Flowers in a Vase)
Signed “Vlaminck” (lower right)
Oil on canvas
A powerful floral still life from one of Maurice de Vlaminck’s most important periods, Fleurs dans un vase captures the artist at a pivotal moment of transformation. Painted circa 1910–11, the work belongs to the years immediately following Vlaminck’s explosive Fauve breakthrough, when his art began to absorb the structural lessons. . .
1876-1958 | French
Fleurs dans un vase
(Flowers in a Vase)
Signed “Vlaminck” (lower right)
Oil on canvas
A powerful floral still life from one of Maurice de Vlaminck’s most important periods, Fleurs dans un vase captures the artist at a pivotal moment of transformation. Painted circa 1910–11, the work belongs to the years immediately following Vlaminck’s explosive Fauve breakthrough, when his art began to absorb the structural lessons. . .
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Maurice de Vlaminck
1876-1958 | French
Fleurs dans un vase
(Flowers in a Vase)
Signed “Vlaminck” (lower right)
Oil on canvas
A powerful floral still life from one of Maurice de Vlaminck’s most important periods, Fleurs dans un vase captures the artist at a pivotal moment of transformation. Painted circa 1910–11, the work belongs to the years immediately following Vlaminck’s explosive Fauve breakthrough, when his art began to absorb the structural lessons of Paul Cézanne while retaining the emotional force, bold color and expressive brushwork that made him one of the great innovators of modern painting.
The composition is both dramatic and vibrant. The flowers are rendered in bursts of red, white, yellow and green against passages of deep teal, ochre and shadow. Rather than describing the flowers with delicate naturalism, Vlaminck builds the scene through contrasting planes of color and texture. The result is a still life that feels both intimate and monumental, balancing the raw vitality of Fauvism with the greater compositional strength that defined his finest works of the early 1910s.
Vlaminck stands alongside Henri Matisse and André Derain as one of the principal architects of Fauvism, the first major avant-garde movement of the twentieth century. Largely self-taught, he was deeply affected by the work of Vincent van Gogh, whose expressive brushwork and emotional use of color helped shape Vlaminck’s early style. By 1910, however, the artist was moving beyond pure Fauvist intensity, adopting a more structured and weighty approach inspired by Cézanne. This rare balance of passion and discipline makes works from 1910–11 especially compelling within Vlaminck’s oeuvre.
Born in Paris to a family of musicians, Vlaminck first pursued music and competitive cycling before turning fully to painting. A chance meeting with André Derain in 1900 led to an enduring friendship and the formation of the École de Chatou, a circle that would help ignite the Fauve revolution. In 1905, Vlaminck exhibited alongside Matisse, Derain and others at the historic Salon d’Automne, where their radical use of color earned them the name “les fauves,” or “wild beasts.” The following year, the influential dealer Ambroise Vollard purchased the contents of Vlaminck’s studio, securing his reputation as one of the most daring artists of his generation. Vlaminck’s works are held in major collections around the world, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., the Dallas Museum of Art and the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts.
This work is accompanied by its certificate of authenticity from the Archives Vlaminck.
Circa 1910-11
Canvas: 20 3/4” high x 14 5/8” wide (52.7 x 37.2 cm)
Frame: 29 3/4” high x 23 5/8” wide x 2” deep (75.6 x 60 x 5.1 cm)
Provenance:
Private Collection, Amsterdam
Private Collection, Moscow
Private Collection, Europe
1876-1958 | French
Fleurs dans un vase
(Flowers in a Vase)
Signed “Vlaminck” (lower right)
Oil on canvas
A powerful floral still life from one of Maurice de Vlaminck’s most important periods, Fleurs dans un vase captures the artist at a pivotal moment of transformation. Painted circa 1910–11, the work belongs to the years immediately following Vlaminck’s explosive Fauve breakthrough, when his art began to absorb the structural lessons of Paul Cézanne while retaining the emotional force, bold color and expressive brushwork that made him one of the great innovators of modern painting.
The composition is both dramatic and vibrant. The flowers are rendered in bursts of red, white, yellow and green against passages of deep teal, ochre and shadow. Rather than describing the flowers with delicate naturalism, Vlaminck builds the scene through contrasting planes of color and texture. The result is a still life that feels both intimate and monumental, balancing the raw vitality of Fauvism with the greater compositional strength that defined his finest works of the early 1910s.
Vlaminck stands alongside Henri Matisse and André Derain as one of the principal architects of Fauvism, the first major avant-garde movement of the twentieth century. Largely self-taught, he was deeply affected by the work of Vincent van Gogh, whose expressive brushwork and emotional use of color helped shape Vlaminck’s early style. By 1910, however, the artist was moving beyond pure Fauvist intensity, adopting a more structured and weighty approach inspired by Cézanne. This rare balance of passion and discipline makes works from 1910–11 especially compelling within Vlaminck’s oeuvre.
Born in Paris to a family of musicians, Vlaminck first pursued music and competitive cycling before turning fully to painting. A chance meeting with André Derain in 1900 led to an enduring friendship and the formation of the École de Chatou, a circle that would help ignite the Fauve revolution. In 1905, Vlaminck exhibited alongside Matisse, Derain and others at the historic Salon d’Automne, where their radical use of color earned them the name “les fauves,” or “wild beasts.” The following year, the influential dealer Ambroise Vollard purchased the contents of Vlaminck’s studio, securing his reputation as one of the most daring artists of his generation. Vlaminck’s works are held in major collections around the world, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., the Dallas Museum of Art and the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts.
This work is accompanied by its certificate of authenticity from the Archives Vlaminck.
Circa 1910-11
Canvas: 20 3/4” high x 14 5/8” wide (52.7 x 37.2 cm)
Frame: 29 3/4” high x 23 5/8” wide x 2” deep (75.6 x 60 x 5.1 cm)
Provenance:
Private Collection, Amsterdam
Private Collection, Moscow
Private Collection, Europe
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Specifications
| Maker: | de Vlaminck, Maurice |
| Period: | 1816-1918 |
| Origin: | France |
| Type: | Paintings |
| Style: | Modernism |
| Depth: | 2.0 in. (5.08 cm) |
| Width: | 23.63 in. (60.01 cm) |
| Height: | 29.75 in. (75.57 cm) |
| Canvas Width: | 14.625 in. (37.15 cm) |
| Canvas Height: | 20.750 in. (52.71 cm) |
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