Lot 453
  • 453

Maurice Utrillo

Estimate
25,000 - 35,000 GBP
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Description

  • Maurice Utrillo
  • Moulin de Sannois
  • signed Maurice, Utrillo, V, (lower right); inscribed indistinctly Sannois (Seine-et-Oise) and signed Maurice, Utrillo, V, on the stretcher
  • oil on canvas
  • 22 by 33cm., 8 5/8 by 13in.

Provenance

Madame Lardé, Paris
Galerie Paul Pétridès, Paris
Findlay Galleries Inc., Chicago
Sale: Christie’s New York, 25th February 1992, lot 67
Purchased at the above sale by the present owner

Exhibited

Oita, Prefectoral Museum of Art; Kyoto, Eki Kyoto Museum (& travelling in Japan), Maurice Utrillo, 1998-99, no. 89, illustrated in colour in the catalogue

Literature

Paul Pétridès, L‘Œuvre complet de Maurice Utrillo, Paris, 1969, vol. III, no. 2076, illustrated p. 259

Condition

The canvas is not lined and there do not appear to be any signs of re-touching visible under UV light. There are some fine lines of craquelure in places. There is some lovely textured impasto and this work is in overall very good condition.
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