Maurice Utrillo Chapelle Notre-Dame-du Verger aux environs de Cancale (Ille-et-Vilaine)

Maurice Utrillo
1883 - 1955
Chapelle Notre-Dame-du Verger aux environs de Cancale (Ille-et-Vilaine)

signed Maurice, Utrillo, V, and dated février 1922, (lower left); signed Maurice, Utrillo, V, and inscribed Environs de cancale - La Chapelle du Verger on the stretcher
oil on canvas
45.8 by 60.9cm., 18 by 24in.
Framed: 67.5 by 82.5cm., 26½ by 32½in.
Painted in February 1922.

This work will be reproduced in the catalogue raisonné of the complete works of Maurice Utrillo.

Condition Report:
The canvas is not lined. Inspection under UV reveals some small intermittent retouchings to parts of the extreme left and right edges. There are a few tiny paint losses in places, some fine lines of craquelure and some paint shrinkage to the fields to the left of the chapel. There are a few scattered accretions and fly spots in places. This work is in overall good condition.

Provenance:
Collection de M. Armand Gazel, Paris
Sale: Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 6th May 1932, lot 127
Sale: Palais d'Orsay, Paris, 26th June 1979, lot O
Sale: Christie's, London, 4th December 1979, lot 33
Sale: Galerie Koller, Zurich, 16th May 1980, lot 5126
Acquired by the present owner by 1990