GENERAL DESCRIPTION
Bougival situates the viewer high on one of the hills bordering the Seine River, allowing for a view across the bending river to the opposite hillside, buildings, and distant scenery. In keeping with landscape painting traditions, the work is organized into three zones: foreground, middle ground, and background. However, Maurice de Vlaminck’s use of a vibrant, saturated palette and emotive brushwork distinguish him from earlier landscape painting traditions.
Created by Vlaminck between 1904 and 1907 during his brief Fauve period, Bougival embodies perfectly the qualities of the group. The striking red foreground, the strong yellow of the trees, and the pure blue of the background build a strong landscape in which movement and structure are balanced. While the palette indicates his reverence for Vincent Van Gogh's emotional use of color, Vlaminck's tripartite composition reflects his awareness of Paul Cézanne's classically structured landscapes. Vlaminck fuses these two contradictory traditions in this vibrant view of the rural area west of Paris. The titular village had seduced many artists before Vlaminck, including impressionists such as Pierre-Auguste Renoir.
Adapted from
- Bonnie Pitman, ed., Dallas Museum of Art: A Guide to the Collection (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2012), 232.
- Richard R. Brettell, Impressionist Paintings, Drawings, and Sculpture from the Wendy and Emery Reves Collection (Dallas, TX: Dallas Museum of Art, 1995): 137.
- "Van Gogh's Sheaves of Wheat, October 22, 2006 to January 7, 2007," Teaching Resource, Dallas Museum of Art.
- "Maurice de Vlaminck, Bougival," DMA Connect, Dallas Museum of Art, 2012.
NOTES
Confirmed all information from the 2001 research document is now entered in the provenance, exhibition history, and bibliography.
FUN FACTS- source- Quote from Jean Leymarie, Fauvism: Biographical and Critical Study (New York: Skira, 1959): 95-96. (As used in "Van Gogh's Sheaves of Wheat, October 22, 2006 to January 7, 2007," Teaching Resource, Dallas Museum of Art, http://dmaresources.org/teacherpackets/teachingpackets/TP/vangogh/zoomifyer/landscape.swf. Accessed 1 December 2014.)
Teaching Ideas source- Drawn From~"Maurice de Vlaminck, Bougival," DMA Connect, Dallas Museum of Art, 2012; Dallas Museum of Art, The Reves Collection at the Dallas Museum of Art , Teaching materials prepared by Ken Kelsey, Gail Davitt, Carolyn Johnson, Cecilia Leach, Diane McClure, and Catherine Proctor, 1995, pages 24-25.
This work was used in the teaching packet, "A Looking Journey." This packet was pasted into Evernote as a separate note.
Adding "draft" tag back to note, Dec 19, 2016, as part of the revised harvest/route procedure. This note will be pulled into GDrive and manually moved to Queta's folders for final review. Update- January 18, 2017- Adding #routed tag so that I can easily keep track of this note in Evernote to confirm that it is eventually pushed into GDrive. As of January 18, 2017 the content is in Brain but not in GDrive so I am unable to finish revisions and mark it complete in Evernote or move the GDoc to Queta's folder.
Update Jan 31, 2017- removing the routed tag so that this note will be resubmitted to Nicky for review. The draft is in the Euro folder in GDrive.
Provenance:
By 1957-1985: Wendy and Emery Reves, France
From 1985: Dallas Museum of Art, gift from the above
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Depicted location and place of origin: Bougival (France): TGN: 7029591
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- red (color): AAT: 300126225
- hills: AAT: 300008777
- houses: AAT: 300005433
- landscapes (representations): AAT: 300015636
- trees: AAT: 300132410
- Fauve: AAT: 300021300
- Neo-Impressionist: AAT: 300021505
- Post-Impressionist: AAT: 300021508
- Vincent Van Gogh: ULAN: 500115588
- Paul Cezanne: ULAN: 500004793
- Pierre-Auguste Renoir: ULAN: 500115467
- yellow (color): AAT: 300127794
- blue (color): AAT: 300129361
- palette (color range): AAT: 300056166
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DMA mobi 187- Learn about Bougival- object number in Piction
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DMAmobi 187- Learn about Maurice de Vlaminck (1876-1958)- object number in Piction
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FUN FACTS
- Regarding his painting, Vlaminck wrote, "I used to go to work right out in the sunshine; the sky was blue, the wheatfields seemed to be stirring and trembling in the torrid heat, with hues of yellow covering the whole scale of chromes; they quivered as if they were about to go up in flames. Vermillion alone could render the brilliant red of the roof tiles on the hillside across the river. The orange of the soil, the raw, harsh colors of walls and grass, the ultramarine and cobalt of the sky, harmonized to extravagance at a sensual, musical pitch. Only the colors on my canvas, orchestrated to the limit of their power and resonance, could render the color emotions of that landscape."
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General Description
Bougival situates the viewer high on one of the hills bordering the Seine River, allowing for a view across the bending river to the opposite hillside, buildings, and distant scenery. In keeping with landscape painting traditions, the work is organized into three zones: foreground, middle ground, and background. However, Maurice de Vlaminck’s use of a vibrant, saturated palette and emotive brushwork distinguish him from earlier landscape painting traditions.
Created by Vlaminck between 1904 and 1907 during his brief Fauve period, Bougival embodies perfectly the qualities of the group. The striking red foreground, the strong yellow of the trees, and the pure blue of the background build a strong landscape in which movement and structure are balanced. While the palette indicates his reverence for Vincent Van Gogh's emotional use of color, Vlaminck's tripartite composition reflects his awareness of Paul Cézanne's classically structured landscapes. Vlaminck fuses these two contradictory traditions in this vibrant view of the rural area west of Paris. The titular village had seduced many artists before Vlaminck, including impressionists such as Pierre-Auguste Renoir.
Adapted from
- Bonnie Pitman, ed., Dallas Museum of Art: A Guide to the Collection (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2012), 232.
- Richard R. Brettell, Impressionist Paintings, Drawings, and Sculpture from the Wendy and Emery Reves Collection (Dallas, TX: Dallas Museum of Art, 1995): 137.
- "Van Gogh's Sheaves of Wheat, October 22, 2006 to January 7, 2007," Teaching Resource, Dallas Museum of Art.
- "Maurice de Vlaminck, Bougival," DMA Connect, Dallas Museum of Art, 2012.
Fun Facts
- Regarding his painting, Vlaminck wrote, "I used to go to work right out in the sunshine; the sky was blue, the wheatfields seemed to be stirring and trembling in the torrid heat, with hues of yellow covering the whole scale of chromes; they quivered as if they were about to go up in flames. Vermillion alone could render the brilliant red of the roof tiles on the hillside across the river. The orange of the soil, the raw, harsh colors of walls and grass, the ultramarine and cobalt of the sky, harmonized to extravagance at a sensual, musical pitch. Only the colors on my canvas, orchestrated to the limit of their power and resonance, could render the color emotions of that landscape."
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