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Vlaminck Experts
Vlaminck Experts
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Maurice de Vlaminck was born in Paris on April 4. His parents were Edmund Julien, who taught violin, and Joséphine Caroline Grillet, who taught piano. His family was of Belgian origin.
Vlaminck settles the western Parisian suburb of Le Vésinet with his musician parents.
Vlaminck studies painting Henri Rigalon on the Île de Chatou. During his teenage years and young adult life, Vlaminck works a variety of jobs to help support his family before committing to a career as a painter.
Vlaminck becomes a professional cycler. Cycling had just become a popular sport in France. Vlaminck hoped this would improve his financial situation.
He marries Suzanne Berly with whom he has three daughters.
Vlaminck contracts typhoid fever. Shortly after recovering, he is called to serve in the military. He is a member of a regimental band.
He is released from military service. He later meets fellow painter André Derain on a train who becomes a close friend to Vlaminck. After the war, Vlaminck earns money giving music lessons and as a bicycle courier.
Two of Vlaminck's groundbreaking paintings, Sur le zinc and L'homme a la pipe are painted.
Vlaminck meets Henri Matisse at the Vincent van Gogh retrospective at the Galeries Bernheim Jeune in Paris. Matisse would later introduce Vlaminck to Ambroise Vollard, one of the most important art dealers of the twentieth century.
Vlaminck writes pornographic novels that Derain illustrates.
Exhibited in the Galerie Berthe Weill in Paris where he met Matisse and others of his circle.
Vlaminck paints Sous bois.
Showed at the Salon des Indépendants. Later that year his work was included in the cage aux fauves at the Salon d’Automne. This was in the company of Matisse, Marquet, Dérain, Rouault, Manguin, Camoin, Puy and Friesz.
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Vlaminck paints Barges on the Seine.
He paints The River Seine at Chateau.
Vlaminck paints Le bassin à Chatou.
Vlaminck traveled to London and painted by the Thames.
Exhibited at Galerie E. Druet, Paris, and in a number of exhibitions devoted to Fauvism.
Vlaminck travels through France but primarily paints along the Seine in Paris.
He has a retrospective at the Palais des Beaux-Arts in Paris.
Vlaminck’s work was included in the Exposition des Artistes Indépendants held at the Petit Palais in connection with the Paris Exposition Universelle.
In June, he publishes a tirade against Picasso and Cubism, a movement which he feels ruined Fauvism, in the periodical Comoedia.
While touring for the Third Reich with a group of French artists the Nazis invited to visit, Vlaminck published his book Portraits avant décès in which he criticizes modern art. The timing of this book earned Vlaminck the label of traitor.
Despite his diminished reputation, Vlaminck participates in the Fauvist Exhibition.
Exhibits at the Musée Nationale d’Art Moderne de Paris.
Exhibits at the Museum of Modern Art in New York.
Honored by his family’s country of origin with his election as a member of the Royal Academy of Belgium.
Vlaminck exhibits at the Venice Biennale.
Exhibits at the Musée Nationale d’Art Moderne de Paris.
Vlaminck dies in Rueil-la-Gadeliere, France on October 11.