Maurice de Vlaminck

French painter (1876-1958)

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Lived 1876–1958, aged 82France
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    1876–1958
    Aged 82
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Updated 2026-06-11

He painted with colors so violent they shocked Paris in 1905, part of the Fauve wave that treated canvases like arenas for pure, uncut pigment.

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Maurice de Vlaminck was born on April 4, 1876, in France. By 1904 he'd joined André Derain and Henri Matisse in what became the Fauve movement — modern artists united by their use of intense, nearly aggressive color. The group held together through 1908, but it was the 1905 Salon d'Automne that made them notorious, Vlaminck among the figures at the center of the controversy. He continued painting until his death on October 11, 1958, outliving the movement by half a century.

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Maurice de Vlaminck
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[T]ranslated by instinct, without any method, not merely an artistic truth but above all a human one.
Quote of De Vlaminck; as cited in Les Fauves, The Museum of Modern Art; Simon & Schuster, New York, 1952; quoted in 'Becoming an Artist' on
Maurice de Vlaminck
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The thought of becoming a painter never as much as occurred to me. I would have laughed out loud if someone had suggested that I choose painting as a career.
Quote of De Vlaminck; as cited in Vlaminck, Klaus G. Perls, The Hyperion Press, New York 1941, p. 51
Maurice de Vlaminck
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[Picasso is guilty of] having dragged French painting into the most dismal 'impasse' and of having led it into in describable confusion.
Quote from Vlaminck's text 'Portraits', c. 1940-42; as cited in 'Dangerous Corner', Maurice de Vlaminck; transl. after 'Tournant Dangereux,
Maurice de Vlaminck
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[with painting] directly tube against canvas, one soon becomes too slick..
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Maurice de Vlaminck
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The war [World War 1] gave me a certainty of belief. I grew aware of the bankruptcy of theories, of the theories of intellectuals as well as artists.
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