Lot 136
  • 136

Maurice Utrillo

Estimate
80,000 - 120,000 USD
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Description

  • Maurice Utrillo
  • La grande-rue à argenteuil
  • Signed Maurice Utrillo. V (lower left)
  • Oil on canvas
  • 23 5/8 by 31 7/8 in.
  • 60 by 81 cm

Provenance

Bignou Gallery, New York

Exhibited

London, The White Period of Utrillo, 1935
Glasgow, French Art of the 19th and 20th Centuries, 1937
New York, Bignou Gallery, Tragic Painters, 1938

Literature

Paul Pétridès, L'oeuvre complet de Maurice Utrillo, vol. I, Paris, 1969, no. 387, illustrated p. 451
Jean Fabris & Cédric Paillier, L'oeuvre complet de Maurice Utrillo, vol. I, Paris, 2009, no. 256, illustrated p. 320

Condition

Canvas is lined. There is a heavy layer of masking varnish on the surface. Surface is slightly dirty. There is an inch long abrasion to the surface with associated loss in the sky above center. Under UV light: several strokes of inpainting in upper right corner. Otherwise fine. Work is in good condition.
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