Maurice Utrillo

Avenue de Versailles et la Tour Eiffel

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December 3, 04:59 PM GMT

Estimate

70,000 - 100,000 EUR

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Description

Property from a Private European Collection

Maurice Utrillo

1883-1955

Avenue de Versailles et la Tour Eiffel

dedicated Amicalement à Tabarant, signed Maurice. Utrillo V. and dated janvier 1922. (lower right)

oil on canvas

50,3 x 65,2 cm; 19¾ x 25⅝ in.

Painted in 1922.

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

Adolphe Tabarant, Paris (gift from the artist)

Mrs. M. Leroux, Paris (acquired in 1957)

Private collection, Paris (by descent from the above)

Sotheby's Paris, 20 October 2023, lot 94 (consigned by the above)

Acquired at the above sale by the present owner

Tokyo, Musée d'art d'Isetan; Nagoya, Musée d'art de Matsuzakaya, and Hiroshima, Musée des beaux-arts, Rétrospective Maurice Utrillo, 1997

Adolphe Tabarant, Utrillo, Paris, 1926, p. 179, illustrated (titled La Tour Eiffel)

Paul Pétridès, L'œuvre complet de Maurice Utrillo, Paris, 1974, vol. II, no. 957, p. 361, illustrated

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