Maurice de Vlaminck: Modern Art Rebel

After his participation at the Paris Salon d’Automne of 1905, Maurice de Vlaminck (1876–1958) quickly established himself as a leading figure of the French avant-garde. More than any other member of the Fauves, he keenly identified with the attribute of wildness and early on propagated the image of a modern artist rebel who resolutely turned his back on the rules of academic painting.