The Bridge at Chatou

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Artist Maurice de Vlaminck (French, 1876–1958)French, 1876–1958

CultureFrench

Titles

The Bridge at Chatou

Date1905

PlaceFrance

MediumOil on canvas

Dimensions19 7/8 × 25 7/8 in. (50.5 × 65.7 cm)
frame: 31 3/8 × 37 3/8 × 3 1/2 in. (79.7 × 94.9 × 8.9 cm)

Credit LineGift of Oveta Culp Hobby

Object number91.1844

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Department

Arts of Europe and the Mediterranean

Object Type

PAINTING

Provenance[Perls Gallery, New York]; Oveta Culp Hobby, Houston, 1968; given to MFAH, 1991.
Exhibition History"Vlaminck: His Fauve Period," Perls Gallery, New York, April 9-May 11, 1968.

"Fauve - - Color," University Art Museum, University of Texas at Austin, January 23-February 20, 1972.

"From Monet to Matisse: Landscape Painting in France 1874-1914," National Gallery of Scotland, Edinburgh, August 11–October 23, 1994.

"The Fauves," The Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Dec. 8, 1995-Feb. 18, 1996; National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Feb. 29-May 13, 1996.

“Masterpieces of European Painting from the 15th to 20th Centuries from
The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, and the Sarah Campbell Baffer Foundation," The Museum of Art, Ehime, Matsuyama, Japan, April 13–May 30,1999; Chiba Prefectural Art Museum, Chiba, Japan, 5 June 5–July 11, 1999; Mie Prefectural Art Museum, Tsu, Japan, July 17–August 22,1999; Fukuoka Art Museum, Fukuoka, Japan, August 27–October 3, 1999.

"Vlaminck: Un instinct fauve," Musée du Luxembourg, Paris, February 20–July 20, 2008; Caixa Forum, Barcelona, Spain, July 2–October 18, 2009.

"From the Private Collections of Texas: European Art, Ancient to Modern" Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth, November 22, 2009–March 21, 2010.

"Henri Matisse and the Fauves," Albertina Museum, Vienna, Austria, September 19, 2013-January 12, 2014.
Published References Les Fauves, Museum of Modern Art, October 8, 1952-January 4, 1953; Minneapolis Institute of Arts, January 21-February 22, 1953; San Francisco Museum of Art, March 13-April 12, 1953; Art Gallery of Toronto, May 1-May 31, 1953; cat. no. 143. Maurice Genevoix, Vlaminck, 1954, p. 38. Vlaminck: His Fauve Period, Perls Gallery, New York, April 9-May 11, 1968, cat. no. 25. Fauve-Color, University Art Museum, University of Texas at Austin, January 23-February 20, 1972, cat. no. 25. "MFA Receives 5 Major Paintings," The Houston Post, January 30, 1992, pp. A1, A15. "Tough New World for Auctioneers," International Herald Tribute, July 23, 1994, p. A7. Judi Freeman, Fauves, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, December 8, 1995-February 18, 1996; National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, February 29-May 13, 1996; cat. no. 86. Masterpieces of European Painting from the 15th to 20th Centuries from the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, and the Sarah Campbell Blaffer Foundation, published by the Museum of Art, Ehime; Chiba Prefectural Art Museum; Mie Prefectural Art Museum; Fukuoka Art Museum; and the Yomiuri Shimbun, the Japan Association of Art Museums, 1999. (Exhibition catalogue in Japanese only.) p. 188, illus. p. 189, cat. no. 68 Exhibition catalogue: Vlaminck: Un Instinct Fauve, Musée de Luxembourg, Skira, 2008, pp. 60-61, Plate 8 Maïthé Vallès-Bled, Vlaminck, Critical Catalogue of Fauve Paintings and Ceramics, Wildenstein Institute, 2008, pp. 120-123, reproduced Richard R. Brettell and C. D. Dickerson III, From the Private Collections of Texas, European Art, Ancient to Modern, Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth, Yale University Press, New Haven, 2009, pp. 362-365, cat. 87; exhibition November 22, 2009 - March 21, 2010 Matisse and the Fauves. Edited by Heinz Widauer and Claudine Grammont. Vienna: Albertina, in association with Wienand Verlag, Cologne, 2013. Published in conjunction with the exhibition of the same name, shown at the Albertina in Vienna, Austria.

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