Lot 484
  • 484

MAURICE UTRILLO | Rue Saint-Vincent et Chaumière d’Henri IV, Montmartre (L’Enclos de la maison de Berlioz)

Estimate
40,000 - 60,000 USD
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Description

  • Maurice Utrillo
  • Rue Saint-Vincent et Chaumière d’Henri IV, Montmartre (L’Enclos de la maison de Berlioz)
  • Signed Maurice. Utrillo. V. (lower right)
  • Oil on canvas
  • 13 1/4 by 16 1/4 in.
  • 33.5 by 41.2 cm

Provenance

Madame Gadot, Paris
Galerie René Drouet, Paris
Acquired by the present owner circa 1990s

Exhibited

Tokyo, Seiji Togo Memorial Sompo Japan Museum of Art & traveling, Maurice Utrillo, La Collection d'un amateur d'art, 2010, no. 14, illustrated in the catalogue

Condition

The canvas has been lined and the edges have been reinforced with tape. Scattered paint shrinkage to the cream tones of the wall and the house. Additional pigment shrinkage to the sky and foliage at center and center left. Under UV light: scattered strokes of inpainting to the upper edge and lower right quadrants. A thin 1 inch line of inpainting at lower right. A larger 1 inch area of inpainting to the sky at upper left.
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Catalogue Note

The authenticity of this work has been confirmed by the Comité Utrillo-Valadon.