Maurice Utrillo: Difference between revisions

| name = Maurice Utrillo

| image = Maurice Utrillo, par Suzanne Valadon.jpg

| caption = ''Portrait of Maurice Utrillo'' (1921), by Suzanne Valadon (his mother)

| birth_name = Maurice Valadon

'''Maurice Utrillo''' ({{IPA-fr|mɔʁis ytʁijo, moʁ-|lang}}), born '''Maurice Valadon'''; 26 December 1883 – 5 November 1955), was a French painter of the [[School of Paris]] who specialized in [[cityscape]]s. Born in the [[Montmartre]] quarter of Paris, France, Utrillo is one of the few famous painters of Montmartre who were born there.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.artnet.com/artists/maurice-utrillo/|title=Maurice Utrillo {{!}} artnet|website=www.artnet.com|access-date=2016-05-03}}</ref>

 

[[File:Maurice Utrillo - 'La Rue Norvins à Montmartre', oil on board painting, c. 1910.jpg|thumb|left|''La Rue Norvins à Montmartre'', {{c.|1910}}]]

Utrillo was the son of the artist [[Suzanne Valadon]] (born Marie-Clémentine Valadon), who was then an eighteen-year-old artist's model. She never revealed who was the father of her child; speculation exists that he was the offspring from a liaison with an equally young amateur painter named Boissy, or with the well-established painter [[Pierre Puvis de Chavannes|Pierre-Cécile Puvis de Chavannes]], or even with [[Pierre-Auguste Renoir|Renoir]].<ref name="The New Yorker - 7 February 2012 - Renoir at The Frick: Go See Dance at Bougival">{{cite news|url=http://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/renoir-at-the-frick-go-see-dance-at-bougival|title=Renoir at The Frick: Go See "Dance at Bougival"|last=Peter Schjeldahl|author-link=Peter Schjeldahl|date=7 February 2012|work=[[The New Yorker]]|access-date=13 September 2014}}</ref> (see below under ''[[#Paternity|Paternity]]''). In 1891 a Spanish artist, [[Miquel Utrillo]], signed a legal document acknowledging paternity, although the question remains as to whether he was in fact the child's father.{{sfn |Warnod |1981 |p=48}}