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Le Déjeuner champêtre or Apéritif à la Grenouillère
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Maurice de Vlaminck
1876 - 1958
Le Déjeuner champêtre or Apéritif à la Grenouillère
signed Vlaminck (lower left)
oil on canvas
65 by 80.9 cm. 25 ⅝ by 31 ⅞ in.
Executed in 1906.
Ambroise Vollard, Paris
Madeleine de Galéa, Paris (acquired by descent from the above)
Thence by descent to the present owner
Florent Fels, L’art vivant de 1900 à nos jours, vol. I, Geneva, 1950, p. 173, illustrated (titled La sieste)
Maurice Genevoix, Vlaminck. I-L’homme. II-L’Œuvre, Paris, 1954, p. 47, a detail illustrated (titled Apéritif à la Grenouillère and dated 1907)
Marcel Sauvage, Vlaminck, sa vie et son message, Geneva, 1956, p. 112, pl. 58, illustrated (titled Apéritif à la Grenouillère and dated 1907)
Georges Boudaille, Vlaminck, Paris, 1968, n.p., illustrated (titled Le Déjeuner champêtre and dated 1907)
James D. Herbert, Fauve Painting: The Making of Cultural Politics, London and New Haven, 1992, fig. 4, p. 21, illustrated (titled Luncheon in the Country and dated circa 1906)
Niamh O’Laoghaire, The Influence of Van Gogh on Matisse, Derain and Vlaminck 1898-1908, Toronto, 1992, pl. 23 (dated 1907)
Benoît Noël and Jean Hournon, La Seine au temps des canotiers, Garches, 1997, p. 120, illustrated in colour (titled L'apéritif à la Grenouillère, dated 1907 and with the image inverted)
Maïthé Vallès-Bled, Vlaminck: Critical Catalogue of Fauve Paintings and Ceramics, The Fauve Period 1900-1907, Paris, 2008, no. 110, pp. 254-255, illustrated in colour
Paris, Galerie Charpentier, L’Œuvre de Vlaminck du fauvisme à nos jours, 1956, no. 33 (titled Le déjeuner champêtre and dated 1907)
Paris, Galerie Charpentier, Cent chefs-d’œuvre de l’art français 1750-1950, 1957, no. 107 (titled Le déjeuner champêtre)
Paris, Galerie Charpentier, Les Fauves, 1962, no. 149, illustrated (titled Le déjeuner champêtre and dated 1907)
Paris, Musée d’Art moderne de la Ville de Paris, Passions privées. Collections particulières d’art moderne et contemporain en France, 1995-96, no. 3, p. 135, illustrated in colour (titled Apéritif à la Grenouillère and dated 1907)