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Eglise Sainte-Marie, I'lle de Ré (Charente-inférieure)
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Maurice Utrillo (1883-1955)
Eglise Sainte-Marie, I'lle de Ré (Charente-inférieure)
signed 'Maurice, Utrillo, V,' (lower right) and inscribed '-L'Eglise Sainte-Marie à Î'lle de Ré, (Charente-Inférieure)' (lower left)
oil on canvas
25 5/8 x 19 3/4 in. (65 x 50.2 cm.)
Painted circa 1938
Eglise Sainte-Marie, I'lle de Ré (Charente-inférieure)
signed 'Maurice, Utrillo, V,' (lower right) and inscribed '-L'Eglise Sainte-Marie à Î'lle de Ré, (Charente-Inférieure)' (lower left)
oil on canvas
25 5/8 x 19 3/4 in. (65 x 50.2 cm.)
Painted circa 1938
Provenance
Private collection, by whom acquired in the early 1950s, and thence by descent; sale, Sotheby's, London, 2 December 1992, lot 200.
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner.
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner.
Exhibited
Tokyo, Seiji Togo Memorial Sompo Japan Museum of Art, Maurice Utrillo, La collection d'un amateur d'art, April - July 2010, no. 66, p. 110 (illustrated); this exhibition later travelled to Niigata, Prefectural Museum of Modern Art; Museum Eki Kyoto, and Toyohashi, City Museum of Art & History.
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