Maurice de Vlaminck * (Paris 1876-1958) L'eglise de Jouy-Le Comte, 1914-20, signed, oil on canvas, 87.5 x 114.5 cm, framed This work is accompanied by a letter (in photocopy) issued by Gilbert Pétrides in 1992. This work is accompanied by letter of inclusion in the Catalogue raisonné de l’oeuvre de Maurice de Vlaminck issued by the Wildenstein Institute in 1995 Provenance: Lesieur-Toupet, Paris (bought directly from the artist in 1920) Hermann C. Starck, Berlin Private collection, Germany Christie’s London, 29 November 1993, lot 20 European private collection (acquired from the above) Exhibited: Japan, Maurice de Vlaminck, Fukushima, Prefectural Museum of Art, 2 November – 8 December 1996 Shimane, Prefectural Museum, 10 January–9 February 1997 Osaka, Daimaru d’Umeda Museum, 19 March–31 March 1997 Tokyo, The Bunkamura Museum of Art, 12 April–18 May 1997, exh. cat., p. 63, no. 31 with ill. (the work is accompanied by various letters regarding the loan of the painting where the date of 1920 is given) Literature: M. Sauvage, Vlaminck, sa vie et son oeuvre, Geneva 1956, p. 160 with ill. “I am surprised that I can still look at the sky [...]. Life can be palpated with the fingers. It appears to the eyes, it offers itself to the senses [...]. I bequeath to young painters all the flowers in the fields, the banks of the streams, the black and white clouds that pass over the plains, the rivers, the forests and the great trees, the hills, the roads, the small villages that winter covers with snow, all the meadows with their magnificent flowers and also the birds and butterflies.” From his will