MAURICE UTRILLO | Moulin de la Galette sous la neige, Montmartre

Mme Yvon Delbos, Paris
Private Collection, USA (sale: Sotheby’s, London 22nd June 2004, lot 531)
Purchased at the above sale by the present owner

Tokyo, Seiji Togo Memorial Sompo Japan Museum of Art; Niigata, The Niigata Prefectural Museum of Art; Kyoto, Museum Eki Kyoto & Aichi, Toyohashi City Museum of Art & History, Maurice Utrillo, La collection d'un amateur d'art, 2010, no. 57, illustrated in colour in the catalogue

Paul Pétridès, L'Œuvre complet de Maurice Utrillo, Paris, 1966, vol. IV, no. AG 328, illustrated p. 296 (with erroneous measurements)

Executed on thick cream wove paper, not laid down and attached to the backing board in two places along the upper edge. The upper edge is deckled. The sheet is slightly time stained. There is some discolouration and some minor nicks to the right edge of the sheet and handling marks to all four corners, none of which are visible when framed. There is a small loss in the green pigment at the centre of the lower edge. This work is in overall good condition.
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The authenticity of this work has been confirmed by Jean Fabris.