Exhibitions:

• Fukushima Prefectural Museum of Art, Maurice de Vlaminck, November 2–December 8, 1996, No. 72, p. 105 (color reproduction on p. 105, as Maison bretonne, dated ca. 1945) (on loan: private collection, France).
• Traveling exhibition:
• Matsue, The Shimane Prefectural Museum, January 10 – February 9, 1997
• Osaka, Daimaru Museum Umeda, March 19 – 31, 1997
• Tokyo, Bunkamura Museum of Art, April 12 – May 18, 1997

An exceptionally rare work on the Czech market by the important French expressionist Maurice de Vlaminck. The painting House in Brittany is a prime example of his typically expressive style, characterized by dramatically contrasting colors and an energetic, free painting technique. Here, Vlaminck continues the tradition of post-impressionism, especially the legacy of Vincent van Gogh, but with a distinctive emotional urgency and monumental feeling.

The painting dates from the artist's late period, when Vlaminck was intensely devoted to landscape painting and village scenes. This painting was repeatedly exhibited in renowned Japanese institutions in the 1990s and is reproduced in the corresponding exhibition catalog.