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Maurice Utrillo Paintings

French, 1883-1955
Maurice Utrillo, initially Maurice Valadon, was born in Paris, December 26, 1883, the illegitimate son of the artist Suzanne Valadon. She, who had become a model after a fall from a trapeze, ended her chosen career as a circus acrobat, found that posing for Berthe Morisot, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec and others provided her with an opportunity to study their techniques; in some cases, she had also become their mistress. She taught herself to paint, and when Toulouse-Lautrec introduced her to Edgar Degas, he became her mentor. Eventually she became a peer of the artists she had posed for. Meanwhile, Valedon's mother was left in charge of raising the young Utrillo, who soon showed a troubling inclination toward truancy and alcoholism. When a mental illness took hold of the twenty-one year old Utrillo in 1904, he was encouraged to paint by his mother. Under her tutelage, he began painting the streets of his childhood neighborhood, Montmartre. Working in the tradition of the conventional veduta, he depicted streets, buildings, fountains, and avenues, which he captured at different seasons of the year in a style influenced by the lyrical realism of Camille Pissarro and Albert Sisley. However, by deploying a subtle palette - mainly yellows, turquoise, maroon and zinc white - he suffused the scenes with atmospheric* qualities that evoke feelings either of familiarity or of alienation in the viewer. Known as his 'White Period' (période blanche), the years between 1909 and 1914 represent the acme of Utrillo's creativity. During this time, he reduced his palette to white, shading into grays. He also mixed his paints with sand, plaster, and lime to render the physical substance of his subject matter, walls in particular. In 1910, art critics F. Jourdan and E. Faure discovered the artist. Their appreciation of his talent enabled Utrillo to take part for the first time in the 1912 Salon d'Automne*. Until 1914, Utrillo traveled in Brittany and Corsica; his works assumed an increasingly luminous* quality, which greatly enriched his earlier ascetic conception of reality. In 1924, he exhibited with his mother at the Galerie Bernheim-Jeune in Paris and was offered a contract for a year. However, that same year he also attempted to commit suicide, which was probably the result of years of alcohol abuse. A powerful natural talent, Utrillo made an enormous contribution in consolidating painterly structure and texture. He was also important as a draughtsman*. In 1926, he designed stage scenery and costumes for Djaghilev's Ballets Russes. He received public recognition in 1928, when he was made a member of the Legion of Honour. Starting where Impressionism* left off, Utrillo became the best-known portrayer of Paris, especially Montmartre, painting both from nature and from postcards. His poetic interpretations of the streets and squares of Montmartre contributed substantially to popularizing a romantic image of that quarter. However, when he painted people, they were always represented as solitary beings, lost in social isolation.
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Artist: Maurice Utrillo
Paris : Winter Day at Montmartre - Original signed gouache painting - Cerificate
Paris : Winter Day at Montmartre - Original signed gouache painting - Cerificate

Maurice UtrilloParis : Winter Day at Montmartre - Original signed gouache painting - Cerificate

$89,381

Paris : Winter Day at Montmartre - Original signed gouache painting - Cerificate

By Maurice Utrillo

Located in Paris, IDF

Maurice UTRILLO Paris : Winter Day at Montmartre Original gouache painting Signed bottom right 40 x 32 cm at view (c. 16 x 13") Painted c. 1934-36 Presented in a golden wood frame ...

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Place Jean-Baptiste-Clément by Maurice Utrillo - Street scene in Paris
Place Jean-Baptiste-Clément by Maurice Utrillo - Street scene in Paris

Maurice UtrilloPlace Jean-Baptiste-Clément by Maurice Utrillo - Street scene in Paris, 1918

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Place Jean-Baptiste-Clément by Maurice Utrillo - Street scene in Paris

By Maurice Utrillo

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*PLEASE NOTE UK BUYERS WILL ONLY PAY 5% VAT ON THIS PURCHASE. Once an order is placed we will arrange the VAT of 20% to be reduced to 5% Place Jean-Baptiste-Clément by Maurice Utril...

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Les Usines En Banlieue
Les Usines En Banlieue

Maurice UtrilloLes Usines En Banlieue, 1926

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Les Usines En Banlieue

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"Les Usines En Banlieue" 1926 Gouache 31 x 40cm/approx. 12.5 x 16.75 inches Signed and Dated Lower Right Catalogue Raisonne: Petredies, Plate AG166, Page 190-191

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1920s Impressionist Maurice Utrillo Paintings

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    The medium that Maurice Utrillo used was painting. He worked primarily in oil paint and produced more than 1,000 works. Many of his pieces depicted the Montmartre neighborhood of Paris. Utrillo is best known for adding zinc and plaster to his pieces to give them an aged effect, a technique he started using in 1904. On 1stDibs, find a variety of Maurice Utrillo art.
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    Maurice Utrillo’s paintings are located at different institutions around the world, including the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. Utrillo was a French artist who attracted international acclaim during the first half of the 20th century. On 1stDibs, shop a collection of authentic Maurice Utrillo paintings from some of the world’s top art dealers.

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