Sixty Works by Modern Masters - Flipbook - Page 29
Maurice de Vlaminick
"Good painting is like good cooking;
it can be tasted, but not explained."
Maurice de Vlaminck
French, 1876 - 1958
Le Pont de Conflans, circa 1907
Oil on canvas
23 x 28¾ inches / 60 x 73 cm
Signed lower right: Vlaminck
From 1907, Vlaminck’s use of colour
became increasingly muted as he
continued to absorb the influence of
Cézanne’s work. The 1907 Cézanne
Retrospective, held at the Salon
d’Automne in Paris, had proved
seminal in the subsequent shaping of
the artist’s palette and technique.
The present work is a good example
of the manner in which Vlaminck
had consciously begun to develop
his compositions using controlled
patches of subdued colour rather
than the irregular and brightlycoloured brushstrokes so typical of
his purely Fauvist style.
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Provenance
Galerie Bernheim-Jeune, Paris
Galerie Alex Maguy, Paris
Private collection, Paris
Literature
Andrew Mantaigne, Maurice de Vlaminck,
Paris, 1929, p. 141, no.1, illustrated
This painting is accompanied by a certificate of
authentication kindly issued by the Wildenstein
Institute, Paris