Maurice de VLAMINCK (1876-1958) [FRANCE] - Lot 21

Maurice de VLAMINCK (1876-1958) [FRANCE] Village in winter under the snow Oil on canvas. Signed lower right 55 x 65.5 cm (Lining) Copy of the Wildenstein Institute's notice of inclusion dated April 27, 1993. Provenance: -Hammer Galleries, New York -Ted Bates Collection -Private collection, Monaco Exhibition : -Seoul, Seoul Arts Center, June 4-August 21, 2017. -Japan, Yamanashi, Prefectural Museum of Art, September 2 - October 22 -Japan, Hiroshima, Museum of Art, November 3 - December 24, 2017. -Japan, Kitakyushu, Municipal Museum of Art, January 2 - February 24, 2018. -Japan, Kumamoto, Prefectural Museum of Art, April 12 - June 10, 2018. -Japan, Shizuoka,City Museum of Art, July 28 - September 24, 2018. This work by Vlaminck reveals all the chromatic audacity and fiery talent of this self-taught artist. Marked by his Fauvist experience and his great admiration for Van Gogh, Vlaminck infuses this banal subject with emotional power and tragic lyricism. The painter's speed is astonishing: he hastily sweeps his canvas with broad strokes of white, black and brown, and even applies impasto straight from the tube in his haste. Vlaminck sometimes spent a long time memorizing landscapes he had seen before he was ready to paint them. They would then present themselves to his memory in the form of flashes, glimpsed during a fast-moving car ride. [...] Vlaminck wrote: "Crossing the Beauce by car. I pass through unsuspected corners. I pass through villages where everything - houses, walls - is the color of the earth, built with earth. Earth and sky... An immense sky that comes down to earth level, all at once". TEMPORARY IMPORT LOT