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Maurice Vlaminck
"Beauty, I see that as a kind of precipice."
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The publication of a postal stamp is often a homage paid by a nation to a place, an event, a remarkable cause or a character which count. The painters and other artists do not escape from this rule. Some are however "forgotten" of postal art. Here, gathered below (French or foreign), emitted stamps (206) or simple studies of stamp (224) in homage to the artists represented on our website. The first French stamp was emitted in 1849, England preceded us by ten years. There is often a share of voyage in this small form of shape paper. The stamp circulates, sails, flies away, it makes dream, then dream a little. M.C.
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A l’age de 83 ans, Maurice de Vlaminck s'éteint le 11 octobre 1958 dans son manoir de « La Tourillière » à Rueil-la-Gadelière (Eure-et-Loir), manoir qu’il avait acquis en 1925, y demeurant jusqu'à la fin de ses jours. Sur sa stèle, il est écrit : «Je n’ai jamais rien demandé, la vie m’a tout donné. J’ai fait ce que j’ai pu, j’ai peint ce que j’ai vu. Vlaminck ». Marcel Aymé écrira : « Vlaminck est mort heureux mais désespéré du monde ». L'artiste fut mené en sa dernière demeure sur un char à boeufs. Nous déposons, en hommage à la mémoire de ce « fauve », un iris.
"Mon ardeur me permet toutes les audaces, toutes les impudeurs, pour oublier les conventions du métier de peindre." - Maurice Vlaminck
"Monsieur de Vlaminck dépasse tous les artistes précédents dans la débauche organique qu'il fait de la couleur." - Etienne Charles (1905)
"La peinture c’est comme la cuisine, ça ne s’explique pas, ça se goûte." - Maurice Vlaminck
"J’aime mieux van Gogh que mon père ! " - Maurice Vlaminck
"Vlaminck est entièrement possédé par Vlaminck. C'est sa force ; puis-je me permettre de dire, sa vertu." - Emmanuel Bénézit
"Vous êtes né peintre comme d’autres naissent paysan ou marin." - Maurice Vlaminck
Notes of biography
Maurice de Vlaminck is born in Paris in 1876, the child of musicians. He does not complete his studies, and leaves his family in 1892 to become a professional cyclist. He marries in 1894 and will become a father of many children. He abandons cycling in 1896 and teaches music until 1911.
Maurice de Vlaminck begins painting in 1899. After his meeting with Monet, he becomes friends with Andre Derain in 1900; together, the two men rent a studio on the island of Chatou. He then paints expressive portraits and landscapes. In 1901, Vlaminck and Derain go to visit the Van Gogh exhibition, and are overwhelmed. From 1904 to 1907, the artist paints Fauvist paintings, using pure colours, simplifying his forms, applying his paint in flat tones and sometimes in Divisionist strokes. As of 1905, he exhibits regularly at the Salon des Indépendants and at the Salon d’Automne; Vlaminck is part of the "cage aux fauves" group that causes a scandal in the same year.
In 1906, the dealer Ambroise Vollard buys the entire contents of his studio, and he mounts his first solo exhibition the following year. Maurice de Vlaminck, who briefly knows the Cubist period (1910), is mobilised by the Great War.
After the war, the artist turns to figurative realism, then expressionism, where he represents the countryside in darker tones, creating thick impastos. In 1939, Vlaminck chairs the banquet of the Vitalists, during which a portrait of Adolf Hitler - the “art critic who is allowed, in his capacity as ex-painter of buildings, to assert that all the artists of the French school were degenerate” - is burned.
Curiously, in 1941, Maurice de Vlaminck joins French artists and writers on a trip to Nazi Germany; during the Occupation, Vlaminck collaborates with various newspapers in which he attacks "foreign" artists, such as Pablo Picasso. For all these reasons, Maurice de Vlaminck will have difficulties as of the immediate post-war period.
He was also a lithographer and wood engraver, an illustrator of works (Radiguet, George Duhamel, Julien Green, etc.) and a writer.
Maurice de Vlaminck died in 1958 in Rueil-la-Gadelière (Eure-et-Loir, France).
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Some were created in lithographic technic, most are simple offset reproductions. They are many those who like collecting these rectangles of paper, monochrome or in games of colours, in matt paper or brilliant, with many words or almost dumb.
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Complete work(s)
Complete work(s)
*« Maurice de Vlaminck », K. von Walters-Kirchen, Benteli Verlag, Berne, 1974
*« L’oeuvre gravé », K. von Walters-Kirchen, Ed. Flammarion, Paris, 1974
* « Vlaminck - Catalogue critique - Peintures et céramiques », Vol. I, Maïthé Vallès-Bled, Ed. Wildenstein Institute, 2006
Bibliographic track and more
To read about the artist :
- « Vlaminck », Maurice Genevoix, Ed. Flammarion, 1954
- « V., sa vie et son message », Marcel Sauvage, Ed. Pierre Cailler, Genève, 1956
- « Maurice Vlaminck », Jacques Perry, Ed. René Kister, 1956
- « Vlaminck, fauve de la peinture », J.-P. Crespelle, Ed. Gallimard, Paris, 1958
- « Vlaminck », G. Boudaille, Nouv. Ed. Françaises, Paris, 1968
- « L’épuration des intellectuels », Pierre Assouline, Ed. Complexe, Bruxelles, 1985
- « V., le peintre et le critique », M. Vallés-Bled, Musée des BA, Chartres, 1987
- « Les fauves », J.-L. Ferrier, Terrail, Paris, 1990
- « Lettres à Vlaminck… », André Derain, Ed. Flammarion, 1993
- « Maurice de Vlaminck », Hervé Joubeaux, Ed. Musée de Chartres, 2000
To read from the artist :
- « Le bœuf », Texte et illustrations, Ed. Correa, 1944
- « M. de V. », V. Alemany, C. Bal-Parisot, Rueil-Malmaison, Ed. Valhermeil, 2015
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Stamp by Maurice Vlaminck
The publication of a postal stamp is often a homage paid by a nation to a place, an event, a remarkable cause or a character which count. The painters and other artists do not escape from this rule. Some are however "forgotten" of postal art. Here, gathered below (French or foreign), emitted stamps (206) or simple studies of stamp (224) in homage to the artists represented on our website. The first French stamp was emitted in 1849, England preceded us by ten years. There is often a share of voyage in this small form of shape paper. The stamp circulates, sails, flies away, it makes dream, then dream a little. M.C.
When the stamp is really emitted, the artist name is preceded of an asterisk (*). It is certain that we do not know each stamp emitted for such or such artist; do not hesitate with us to make known them!
Discover all the stamps
+ Autograph
Signed letter by the artist
Private collection / This document is not for sale
+ A tribute to...
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A tribute to Maurice Vlaminck
Sorry this section is only available in french for now.
A l’age de 83 ans, Maurice de Vlaminck s'éteint le 11 octobre 1958 dans son manoir de « La Tourillière » à Rueil-la-Gadelière (Eure-et-Loir), manoir qu’il avait acquis en 1925, y demeurant jusqu'à la fin de ses jours. Sur sa stèle, il est écrit : «Je n’ai jamais rien demandé, la vie m’a tout donné. J’ai fait ce que j’ai pu, j’ai peint ce que j’ai vu. Vlaminck ». Marcel Aymé écrira : « Vlaminck est mort heureux mais désespéré du monde ». L'artiste fut mené en sa dernière demeure sur un char à boeufs. Nous déposons, en hommage à la mémoire de ce « fauve », un iris.
"Mon ardeur me permet toutes les audaces, toutes les impudeurs, pour oublier les conventions du métier de peindre." - Maurice Vlaminck
"Monsieur de Vlaminck dépasse tous les artistes précédents dans la débauche organique qu'il fait de la couleur." - Etienne Charles (1905)
"La peinture c’est comme la cuisine, ça ne s’explique pas, ça se goûte." - Maurice Vlaminck
"J’aime mieux van Gogh que mon père ! " - Maurice Vlaminck
"Vlaminck est entièrement possédé par Vlaminck. C'est sa force ; puis-je me permettre de dire, sa vertu." - Emmanuel Bénézit
"Vous êtes né peintre comme d’autres naissent paysan ou marin." - Maurice Vlaminck
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