Maurice Utrillo
Église des Vaux-de-Cernay
signed ‘Maurice, Utrillo, V,’ (lower right)
oil on canvas
17 7/8 x 21 1/2 in. (45.5 x 54.5 cm.)
Painted circa 1939-1940
Provenance :
Galerie Paul Pétridès, Paris.
Henri Smadja, Paris.
Perls Galleries, New York, by whom acquired in May 1941.
Mrs. Albert D. Lasker, New York, by whom acquired in February 1942.
Bezalel National Museum, Jerusalem.
Anonymous sale, Christie’s, London, 5 December 1978, lot 64.
Galerie Walter Klinkhoff, Montreal, by whom acquired at the above sale.
Private collection, Canada, by whom acquired from the above in 1968; sale, Christie’s, London, 25 June 2014, lot 424.
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner.
Literature
P. Pétridès, L’œuvre complet de Maurice Utrillo, vol. III, Paris, 1969, no. 2084, p. 260 (illustrated p. 261).
The Comité Utrillo has confirmed the authenticity of this work.
Maurice Utrillo
La maison de Mimi Pinson sous la neige
signed ‘Maurice, Utrillo, V,’ (lower right)
oil on canvas
15 x 18 1/4 in. (38.2 x 46.1 cm.)
Painted circa 1938-1940
Provenance :
Private collection, Chile, by whom acquired by 1969, and thence by descent; sale, Christie’s, London, 24 June 2009, lot 242.
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner.
Literature
P. Pétridès, L’œuvre complet de Maurice Utrillo, vol. III, Paris, 1969, no. 2025, p. 244 (illustrated p. 245).
The Comité Utrillo has confirmed the authenticity of this work.
Maurice Utrillo
Église d’Auvers sur Oise (Val D’Oise)
signed and dated ‘Maurice, Utrillo, V, 1933,’ (lower right); inscribed ‘Auvers-sur-Oise – L’escalier de l’Église -‘ (lower left)
gouache on paper
17 3/4 x 13 5/8 in. (45 x 34.6 cm.)
Executed in 1933
Provenance :
Anonymous sale, Hôtel Rameau, Versailles, 9 June 1971, lot 54.
Private collection, Paris, and thence by descent; sale, Christie’s, Paris, 20 May 2009, lot 59.
Anonymous sale, Meeting Art, Vercelli, 11 March 2012, lot 581.
Acquired at the above sale by the family of the present owner.
Literature
P. Pétridès, L’oeuvre complet de Maurice Utrillo, vol. V, Supplément, Paris, 1974, no. 2751, p. 252 (illustrated p. 253; with incorrect medium).
Maurice Utrillo
Rue sous la neige
signed, dated and inscribed ‘Amicalement à Marien Près, et aux siens, Maurice, Utrillo, V, Janvier 1923,’ (lower left)
gouache on paper laid down on panel
10 1/2 x 14 1/2 in. (26.7 x 37 cm.)
Executed in January 1923
Provenance :
Marien Prè, Paris, a gift from the artist.
Galerie Motte, Geneva.
Mr A. Klaus, Munich, acquired from the above in 1970; sale, Sotheby’s, London, 5 April 1989, lot 349.
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner.
Literature
P. Pétridès, L’oeuvre complet de Maurice Utrillo, vol. IV, Paris, 1966, no. AG102, p. 146 (illustrated p. 147).
Exhibited
Tokyo, Seiji Togo Memorial Sompo Japan Museum of Art, Maurice Utrillo, April – July 2010, no. 31, p. 208 (illustrated p. 65); this exhibition later travelled to Niigata, The Niigata Prefectural Museum of Modern Art, July – August 2010; Kyoto, Museum [EKi] Kyoto, September – October 2010; and Aichi, Toyohashi City Museum of Art & History, October – December 2010.
Maurice Utrillo
Le Moulin de la Galette
signed and dated ‘Maurice Utrillo Septembre 1920’ (lower right)
oil on board
21 1/8 x 25 1/2 in. (53.5 x 64.8 cm.)
Painted in September 1920
Provenance :
Galerie Bernheim-Jeune, Paris.
Private collection, France, by 1962.
Private collection, Switzerland, by whom acquired by circa 1985; sale, Christie’s, London, 22 June 2005, lot 193.
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner.
Literature
P. Pétridès, L’œuvre complet de Maurice Utrillo, vol. II, Paris, 1962, no. 857, p. 298 (illustrated, p. 299).
P. Courthion, Utrillo e Montmartre, Milan, 1969, no. 30, p. 56 (illustrated pl. XXX).
Exhibited
Tokyo, Daimaru Museum, Maurice Utrillo, September 1992; this exhibition later travelled to Kyoto, Daimaru Museum, September – October 1992; Osaka, Daimaru Museum, October 1992; Shimonoseki, Daimaru Bunka Hall, October – November 1992 and Onomichi, Municipal Museum, November – December 1992.
Tokyo, Mitaka Municipal Museum, Maurice Utrillo, le Montmarte du rêve et de la poésie, April – July 2007, no. 26, pp. 42 & 122; this exhibition later travelled to Chiba, Prefectural Museum, July – August 2007; Hokkaida, Asahikawa Museum of Art, September – October 2007 and Fukuoka, Prefectural Museum of Art, October – December 2007.