MAURICE UTRILLO
(Paris 1883–1955 Dax)
Rue Saint-Rustique et le Sacré-Cœur. Circa 1919.
Oil on cardboard on panel, parqueted.
Signed lower right: Maurice, Utrillo, V.
65 × 50 cm.
We would like to thank the Association Maurice Utrillo for confirming the authenticity of the work, March 2022. A certificate can be issued at the request of the buyer.
Certificate:
Jean Fabris, Paris, 25.3.1991.
Provenance:
- Roger Hauert collection, Paris.
- Marcel Bernheim Gallery, Paris.
- Private collection Tahiti.
- Private collection Paris.
- Auction Guy Loudmer, Paris, 22.11.1993, lot 67.
- Swiss private collection, acquired at the above auction and by descent to the present owners.
Literature:
Paul Pétridès: L'œuvre complet de Maurice Utrillo, Paris 1966, vol. II, p. 528, no. 1254 (with ill.).
Active throughout his life on the famous hill of Montmartre, Maurice Utrillo depicted the Sacré-Cœur Basilica behind the towering buildings of a narrow alley in the present work. The artist often worked repetitively on the same motifs. This seriality, sometimes using postcards as models, is both a reflection of the necessity of the creative process in the life of an artist, as well as a means of creating new icons of modernity. The artist skilfully employed an extensive yet muted palette to create an expressive mood. The setting and the artwork coalesce into an unusual harmony. Utrillo was able to capture contemporary Paris in dazzling and melancholic urban landscapes like no other artist. As a description of the world in which he lived, his works, which are close to naïve art, are by no means to be interpreted merely as descriptions of his condition, but reveal a particularly reflective attitude to the renewal of the tradition of the veduta; Utrillo arguably influenced this genre more than any other artist of his generation.
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(Paris 1883–1955 Dax)
Rue Saint-Rustique et le Sacré-Cœur. Circa 1919.
Oil on cardboard on panel, parqueted.
Signed lower right: Maurice, Utrillo, V.
65 × 50 cm.
We would like to thank the Association Maurice Utrillo for confirming the authenticity of the work, March 2022. A certificate can be issued at the request of the buyer.
Certificate:
Jean Fabris, Paris, 25.3.1991.
Provenance:
- Roger Hauert collection, Paris.
- Marcel Bernheim Gallery, Paris.
- Private collection Tahiti.
- Private collection Paris.
- Auction Guy Loudmer, Paris, 22.11.1993, lot 67.
- Swiss private collection, acquired at the above auction and by descent to the present owners.
Literature:
Paul Pétridès: L'œuvre complet de Maurice Utrillo, Paris 1966, vol. II, p. 528, no. 1254 (with ill.).
Active throughout his life on the famous hill of Montmartre, Maurice Utrillo depicted the Sacré-Cœur Basilica behind the towering buildings of a narrow alley in the present work. The artist often worked repetitively on the same motifs. This seriality, sometimes using postcards as models, is both a reflection of the necessity of the creative process in the life of an artist, as well as a means of creating new icons of modernity. The artist skilfully employed an extensive yet muted palette to create an expressive mood. The setting and the artwork coalesce into an unusual harmony. Utrillo was able to capture contemporary Paris in dazzling and melancholic urban landscapes like no other artist. As a description of the world in which he lived, his works, which are close to naïve art, are by no means to be interpreted merely as descriptions of his condition, but reveal a particularly reflective attitude to the renewal of the tradition of the veduta; Utrillo arguably influenced this genre more than any other artist of his generation.
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