Lot 219
  • 219

Maurice Utrillo

Estimate
20,000 - 30,000 GBP
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Description

  • Maurice Utrillo
  • ÉGLISE À ORTHEZ
  • signed Maurice, Utrillo, V, dated Octobre 1923, titled and inscribed B-Pyrénées (lower right)
  • gouache on paper
  • 48.5 by 55.5cm., 19 1/8 by 21 7/8 in.

Provenance

Acquired by the present owner in the early 1960s

Literature

Paul Pétridès, L'Œuvre complet de Maurice Utrillo, Paris, 1966, vol. IV, no. AG 127, illustrated p. 163

Condition

Executed on cream wove paper, attached along all four edges to the board, the lower edge is deckled. There are artist's pinholes at all four edges. There is a thin line of glue residue at the upper right corner and a small flattened crease towards the lower right corner. Apart from light undulation to the sheet, this work is in good condition.
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