Modern Discoveries
Modern Discoveries
Property from a Private Collection, Switzerland
Le bureau de poste de Bièvres
Lot Closed
October 17, 12:37 PM GMT
Estimate
70,000 - 100,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
Maurice Utrillo
1883 - 1955
Le bureau de poste de Bièvres
signed Maurice Utrillo. V., and dated 1923. (lower right)
oil on canvas
64.5 by 80.5 cm. 25⅜ by 31¾ in.
Framed: 89 by 105 cm. 35 by 41⅜ in.
Executed in May 1923.
This work will be reproduced in the catalogue raisonné of the complete works of Maurice Utrillo.
Alexander Potter, London
Sotheby's London, 6 May 1959, lot 64 (consigned by the above)
René Lalou, Neuilly
Hotel La Mère Poulard Le Mont-Saint-Michel, 27 January 1990, lot 1
Galerie Marcel Bernheim, Paris
Acquired from the above by the present owner
Paul Petrides, L'Œuvre Complet de Maurice Utrillo, vol. II, Paris 1962, no. 1028, p. 403, illustrated
Montigny-les-Cormeilles, Centre Picasso, Utrillo: Peinture de 1908 a 1950, 1992, no. 62, illustrated