Square Saint-Pierre à Montmartre

Details

Maurice Utrillo (1883-1955)
Square Saint-Pierre à Montmartre
signed 'Maurice, Utrillo, V,' (lower right)
oil on board laid down on cradled panel
19 5/8 x 24 1/8 in. (49.8 x 61.2 cm.)
Painted circa 1908

Provenance

Anon. sale, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 20 October 1926, lot 70.
Hon. Mrs. Pleydell Bouverie, London.
Mr. and Mrs. Leigh B. Block, Chicago (by 1963); sale, Sotheby Parke Bernet Inc., New York, 20 May 1981, lot 334.
Acquired by the late owners, by 1994.

Literature

P. Pétridès, L'oeuvre complet de Maurice Utrillo, Paris, 1959, vol. I, p. 120, no. 73 (illustrated, p. 121).

Exhibited

New York, Wildenstein Gallery, Utrillo, 1957, no. 3 (illustrated).
Pittsburgh Museum of Art, Carnegie Institute, Maurice Utrillo, October-December 1963, no. 5 (illustrated).
Washington D.C., National Gallery of Art; Los Angeles County Museum of Art and Boston Museum of Fine Arts, 100 European Paintings and Drawings from the Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Leigh B. Block, 1967-1968, no. 55 (illustrated).

Sale Room Notice

Jean Fabris has confirmed the authenticity of this painting.


Please note the additional provenance for this lot:
Anon. sale, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 20 October 1926, lot 70.
Hon. Mrs. Pleydell Bouverie, London.
Mr. and Mrs. Leigh B. Block, Chicago (by 1963); sale, Sotheby Parke Bernet Inc., New York, 20 May 1981, lot 334.
Acquired by the late owners, by 1994.