Maurice Utrillo - Petite maison dans le Maquis - image-1

Lot 475 D

Maurice Utrillo - Petite maison dans le Maquis

Auction 979 - overview Cologne
31.05.2011, 00:00 - Modern Art
Estimate: 20.000 € - 30.000 €
Result: 25.410 € (incl. premium)

Oil over pencil draft on cardboard 10.6 x 13.4 cm, mounted on thin wooden board 11 x 14.2 cm, framed (probably the old original wooden frame, painted in white). Signed Maurice Utrillo V into wet colour in white and green lower right. - On reverse on board with a small illegible round stamp (customs stamp?).

The so-called "Maquis" at Montmartre was a rather poor but green quarter of Paris with small houses and simple wooden sheds built at random on urban waste land. The inhabitants of former times nevertheless enjoyed a free and almost rural atmosphere under the towering Moulin de la Galette and the dome of Sacre Coeur. It is one of the motifs Utrillo favoured most.

Certificate

We would like to thank the Association Maurice Utrillo, Pierrefitte-Sur-Seine, for kind confirmatory information; the work will be included in the catalogue raisonné of Maurice Utrillo by Jean Fabris and Cédric Paillier.

Provenance

Lucie Valore-Utrillo, Paris; acquired there before 1943, since then in family possession