Lot 182
  • 182

MAURICE UTRILLO | Château de Gamay (Côte-d'Or)

Estimate
30,000 - 50,000 USD
bidding is closed

Description

  • Maurice Utrillo
  • Château de Gamay (Côte-d'Or)
  • Signed Maurice, Utrillo, V, and dated 1933, (lower right); inscribed -Château de Gamay (Côte-d'Or)- (lower left) 
  • Gouache on paper
  • 15 1/8 by 20 3/8 in.
  • 38.4 by 51.7 cm
  • Executed in 1933.

Provenance

Galerie de l'Île-de-France, Paris
Niveau Gallery, New York
Acquired from the above on February 22, 1983

Literature

Paul Pétridès, L'Oeuvre complet de Maurice Utrillo, vol. V, Paris, 1974, no. AG 617, illustrated p. 71  

Condition

The work is in very good condition. Executed on cream wove paper. The sheet has been laid down to a board. There are artist's pinholes to all four corners. Some minor nicks and tears to the extreme edges of the sheet. There is a pindot loss to the pigment in the sky along the upper edge. There is some very light staining in the sky.
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Catalogue Note

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