Vlaminck, and Matisse. The reasons for the ready acceptance of African art by the modern artist are perhaps a clue to our own appreciation. James Johnson Sweeney writes in African Folk Tales and ...

Among these were several works by Vlaminck, who is described as “the pioneer of the Fauvist movement along with Henri Matisse and Andre Derain,” according to a release from Art Recovery ...

Unlike his former comrades Vlaminck and Derain, he did not prostitute himself ... for Matisse himself had looked at art beyond his national heritage, at exotic textiles, at art from Africa and Oceania ...