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Maurice de Vlaminck
Portrait of Guillaume Apollinairecirca 1904-1905

Not on view
Oil painting portrait, chest-up view of a man in a navy jacket with a white collar, painted in loose brushwork with bold salmon, coral, and teal tones against a golden yellow background

Maurice de Vlaminck, Portrait of Guillaume Apollinaire, circa 1904-1905, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Gift of Marion Smooke in memory of her husband Nathan Smooke, photo © Museum Associates/LACMA

Artist or Maker
Maurice de Vlaminck
France, 1876-1958
Title
Portrait of Guillaume Apollinaire
Place Made
France
Date Made
circa 1904-1905
Medium
Oil on board mounted on canvas
Dimensions
21 1/4 × 17 1/2 in. (53.98 × 44.45 cm)
Credit Line
Gift of Marion Smooke in memory of her husband Nathan Smooke
Accession Number
AC1992.285.1
Classification
Paintings
Collecting Area
Modern Art
Provenance
The artist (1876-1958). [Paul Pétrides, Paris]. Mr. (1886–1954) and Mrs. (1890–1963) Crawford A. Black, New York by 1966. [Perls Galleries, New York]; sold in 1968 to Mr. and Mrs. James J. Shapiro (1910-1995), New York; [sold in 1978 through John and Paul Herring, New York]; to Nathan (1909-1991) and Marion Smooke (1916-2001), Los Angeles; given in 1992 to LACMA.
Selected Bibliography
  • Fondation Beyeler. Farbe zu Licht. Hatje Cantz Verlag, Fondation Beyeler, Kuenstler und Autoren, 2000
  • Los Angeles County Museum of Art Members' Calendar 1993, vol. 31, no. 1-11 (January-November, 1993).
  • Powell III, Earl A., Robert Winter, and Stephanie Barron. The Robert O. Anderson Building. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1986.
  • Maurice de Vlaminck: Un Instinto Fauve: Pinturas de 1900 a 1915. Milan: Skira, 2009.
  • Vallès-Bled, Maïthé, ed. Vlaminck: Catalogue critique des peintures et céramiques de la période fauve. Paris: Wildenstein Institute, 2008.
Copyright
© Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris