Maurice de Vlaminck's interest in art dates from 1895, with lessons in drawing and study of the Impressionists, and in 1899 the twenty-one-year-old Vlaminck begins sharing a studio with nineteen-year-old André Derain, a friend from childhood.
Noted for his brash temperament as well as his flair for painting landscapes, Vlaminck experiments with pure, intense color drawn straight from the tube and applied in thick daubs.