Maurice de Vlaminck (1876-1958)
L'Eglise
signed 'Vlaminck' (lower right)
oil on canvas
25 ½ x 31 7/8 in. (64.8 x 81 cm.)
Provenance
Galerie Thannhauser, Berlin. Josef von Sternberg, Los Angeles (by 1935); sale, Parke-Bernet Galleries, Inc., New York, 22 November 1949, lot 82. Walter Brecher, New York (acquired at the above sale). Private collection (by descent from the above); sale, Sotheby's, New York, 13 February 2008, lot 42. Acquired at the above sale by the present owner.
Exhibited
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, From the Collection of Josef von Sternberg, June-July 1935, no. 41. Los Angeles County Museum of Art, The Collection of Josef von Sternberg, May-September 1943, no. 52. The Arts Club of Chicago, Exhibition of Paintings and Drawings from the Josef von Sternberg Collection, November1946.
Maïthé Vallès-Bled and Godeliève de Vlaminck will include this work in their forthcoming Maurice de Vlaminck catalogue critique currently being prepared under the sponsorship of the Wildenstein Institute.