Maurice de Vlaminck French, 1876–1958 · 1905

Houses at Chatou

Maurice de Vlaminck French, 1876–1958

Houses at Chatou

1905

Maurice de Vlaminck's 'Houses at Chatou' (1905) is an early Fauve landscape from Vlaminck's intense collaboration with André Derain in the western Paris suburb of Chatou on the Seine. Red roofs, tangerine walls, and flame-blue shadows are laid down in raw parallel strokes — a paradigmatic product of the summer of 1905 when Fauvism exploded onto the French scene. The painting is in the Art Institute of Chicago.

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Image source: Art Institute of Chicago