Suburban Landscape
Maurice de Vlaminck
(French, 1876–1958)
1905
Medium/TechniqueOil on canvas
Dimensions60.3 x 73 cm (23 3/4 x 28 3/4 in.)
Credit LineGift and Bequest of David and Peggy Rockefeller
Accession number1991.426
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With exuberant, breathlessly applied color, Vlaminck transformed this view of an ordinary street in the Parisian suburbs into a kind of manifesto for the Fauves (literally “wild beasts”), an avant‑garde group whose name was coined in 1905 by a conservative critic who found their paintings uncivilized. While startling to critics, this mode of painting was not without precedents: Vlaminck incorporated the bold marks and non-naturalistic use of color he saw in works by the Neo-Impressionists and by Van Gogh with a favored motif of the Impressionists (a suburban street) to create an innovative new vision.
ProvenanceAmbroise Vollard (dealer; b. 1867 - d. 1939), Paris (stock no. 4674) [see note 1]. 1939, with Wildenstein and Co., London [see note 2]. About 1949, Galerie de l’Elysée, Paris [see note 3]. 1950, Wildenstein and Co., Paris and London; June 13, 1950, sold by Wildenstein to J. Schöni, Zurich. By 1952, Maurice Culberg (b. 1905 – d. 1953) and Ruth Culberg (b. 1906 – d. 1980), Chicago; February 27, 1962, sold by Ruth Culberg to M. Knoedler and Co., New York (stock no. A8207); April 17, 1962, sold by Knoedler to David Rockefeller, New York [see note 4]; 1991, partial gift of David Rockefeller to the MFA; 2017, accessioned fully with the gift and bequest of David and Peggy Rockefeller to the MFA. (Accession Dates: May 22, 1991 and June 21, 2017)NOTES:
[1] According to Pascale Krausz, Françoise Marnoni, and Annie Champié, Vlaminck: catalogue critique des peintures et céramiques de la période fauve (Paris: Wildenstein Institute, 2008), p. 114, cat. no. 37. [2] Included in the “Exhibition of Two contrasting Periods in the work of Vlaminck,” Wildenstein, London, June 1939, cat. no. 11 (as "Nanterre"). [3] Information about the provenance of the painting between 1949 and 1950 is taken from the catalogue raisonné by P. Krausz et al. (as above, n. 1). [4] Getty Provenance Index, M. Knoedler and Co. Records, PI Record No. K-36379 (stock book 11, no. 8207, p. 136).
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