Lot 389
  • 389

MAURICE UTRILLO | Argentan dans l'Orne

Estimate
80,000 - 120,000 GBP
bidding is closed

Description

  • Maurice Utrillo
  • Argentan dans l'Orne
  • signed Maurice, Utrillo, V., (towards lower left); signed Maurice, Utrillo, dated Août 1922 and titled on the reverse
  • oil on canvas
  • 50.3 by 65cm., 19 3/4 by 25 1/2 in.
  • Painted in August 1922.

Provenance

Paul Guillaume, Paris
Joseph Winterbotham, Burlington, Vermont (acquired by 1954)
Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago (sale: Sotheby’s, New York, 14th May 1986, lot 213)
Manfred Gerber, Switzerland
M. Smidoff, Geneva
Sale: Hôtel Richemond, Geneva, 18th December 1990, lot 50
Sale: Bourg-en-Bresse, Hôtel des Ventes, 9th June 1991, lot 56
Sale: Kohn Scp, Paris, 12th December 1995, lot 231
Purchased at the above sale by the present owner

Literature

Francis Carco, Maurice Utrillo, Les Peintres français nouveaux, Paris, 1921, no. 8, illustrated p. 61 (titled Paysage d'Île de France)
Adolphe Basler, Maurice Utrillo, 1929, illustrated pl. 30 (titled Paysage)
Adolphe Basler, Maurice Utrillo, Paris, 1931, illustrated p. 85
Marius Mermillon, Maurice Utrillo, Paris, 1948, illustrated pl. 10
Maurice Utrillo (exhibition catalogue), Seiji Togo Memorial Sompo Japan Museum, Tokyo, 2010, no. 7, illustrated in colour p. 148

Condition

The canvas is not lined and examination under UV light shows no signs of retouching. There is some pigment loss to all four corners and some additional small flecks at the extreme edges.There is a vertical line of craquelure with some associated pigment loss to the centre of the composition and there is some further craquelure to the sky. This work is in overall good condition.
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Catalogue Note

The authenticity of this work has been confirmed by Jean Fabris.