Maurice de Vlaminck

In the 1930s, whilst living in Eure-et-Loir (France), Maurice de Vlaminck painted landscapes, flowers and still lifes. Critics of the time regarded the artist’s final years as the most intense period of his creative output. Here, on a corner of a rustic table, a stoneware beehive, a few glasses, a bowl of fruit and a bottle make up the elements of this still life. They are swiftly rendered with varied brushstrokes that structure their surfaces into areas of differing light intensities. The muted palette and the black outlines of the objects accentuate the austerity of the work. Vlaminck continued to paint until his death, using the same forceful impasto to create landscapes in broken tones from which all the brilliance of his early Fauvism had faded.  

This translation has been automatically generated by DeepL.