Maurice de Vlaminck
French, 1876–1958
Houses at Chatou
INV-7469
Maurice de Vlaminck
French, 1876–19581905
Houses at Chatou
Maurice de Vlaminck French, 1876–1958 →oil on canvaspainting
Date
1905
Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
81.3 × 101.6 cm (32 × 40 in.)
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Location
Chicago, IL
Credit
Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Maurice E. Culberg
In reviewing the 1905 Salon d’Automne, an alternative exhibition to the official Salon, one critic likened the work of Maurice de Vlaminck, Henri Matisse, and André Derain to that of wild beasts (fauves in French). Although not intended as a criticism, others used the name to attack this new direction in avant-garde art. The Fauves were not a formally unified group, but their style was nevertheless distinct, characterized by their use of vibrant, unmixed paint and rough, spontaneous brushwork. The thick application, explosive color, and subject of Houses at Chatou—possibly one of the works included in the 1905 Salon—reveal the importance of the work of Vincent van Gogh to the Fauves.
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