Maurice de Vlaminck (Primary Title)
Man Ray, American, 1890 - 1976 (Artist)
A self-taught artist, Maurice de Vlaminck (1876–1958) was one of the key members of the movement known today as Fauvism. By 1905, when he exhibited his canvases alongside those of André Derain and Henri Matisse in the Salon d’Automne in Paris, Vlaminck’s work possessed the frenzied brushwork, heightened color, and expressive intensity that would become the hallmarks of the Fauve group’s contribution to modern art. In later years, Vlaminck’s palette darkened and his scenes of gloomy winter landscapes and village streets were rendered in a thick impasto applied with a brush or palette knife, which Man Ray humorously compared to “spreading paint like butter on bread.” Affecting the persona of a farmer rather than a modern artist, Vlaminck’s rustic attire of a herringbone-patterned tweed jacket, laced shirt, and neckerchief in Man Ray’s portrait is far removed from the tailored suits and ties worn by Juan Gris, Henri Matisse, and other artists who posed for the American-born photographer.
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