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Maurice de Vlaminck , French, 1876-1958

Title

Flowers

Datec.1935

MediumOil on canvas

Dimensions

41 x 33 cm

Signedlower right: Vlaminck

Credit LinePurchased, 1968

Object numberNGI.1877

ProvenanceGalerie Montmartre, 33 Boulevard de Clichy, Paris; Fr. Jack Hanlon; Dawson Gallery, 4 Dawson Street, Dublin.Exhibition HistoryFriends of the National Collection, Loan Exhibition of Continental Paintings, Dublin 1944, no.146

French 19th and 20th Century Paintings from the National Gallery of Ireland: Corot to Picasso, Daimaru Museum, Tokyo, 5 September-17 September 1996; Daimaru Museum, Kyoto, 10 October-22 October 1996; Kawaguchiko Museum of Art, Yamanashi, 26 October-2 December 1996; Daimaru Museum, Umeda,Osaka, 22 January-9 February 1997; Aomori Municpal Gallery of Art, Aomori, 2 April-20 April 1997
Label TextDe Vlaminck is thought to have painted this Expressionistic still-life at his farmhouse in the Eure-et-Loir region. He has applied the paint using a dense impasto allowing the colours to overlap and swirl into each other. Although the artist painted many flower-pieces, he mostly depicted dark landscapes with windswept trees and stormy skies. This interior scene is a variation on such landscapes. The flowers and foliage appear to sway before the tumultuous grey background, as though a landscape in miniature.