Eglise Notre-Dame de Clignancourt

Details

Maurice Utrillo (1883-1955)
Eglise Notre-Dame de Clignancourt
signed 'Maurice Utrillo. V.' (lower left)
oil on canvas
26 1/8 x 36 ½ in. (66.3 x 92.7 cm.)
Painted circa 1911

Provenance

Acquired by the family of the late owners, by 1963.

Literature

A. Tabarant, Utrillo, Paris, 1926, p. 55 (illustrated).
P. Pétridès, L'oeuvre complet de Maurice Utrillo, Paris, 1959, vol. I, p. 298, no. 244 (illustrated, p. 299).

Exhibited

Pittsburgh, Carnegie Institute, Museum of Art, Maurice Utrillo, October-December 1963, no. 61 (illustrated; dated 1913 and titled Eglise de Clignancourt).

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Lot Essay

The Comité Utrillo has confirmed the authenticity of this work.
“I was born in Paris on 25 December 1883, on a Christmas night, at 3, rue de Poteau, next to the church of Notre-Dame de Clignancourt. This is not a very beautiful church and not very old, and there it is all on its own; but I like it all the same and I have painted it for my mother who looks after it.” -Maurice Utrillo

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