Maurice Utrillo: Difference between revisions

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 the father of her child; speculation exists that he was the offspring of 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 magazine|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|magazine=[[The New Yorker]]|access-date=13 September 2014}}</ref> (seeSee 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}}

Meanwhile, her mother was left to raise the young Maurice, who soon showed a troubling inclination toward [[truancy]] and [[alcoholism]].{{sfn |Warnod |1981 |pp=57–59}} When a mental illness[[schizophrenia]] took hold of the 21-year-old Utrillo in 1904, his mother encouraged him to take up painting. He soon showed real artistic talent. With no training beyond what his mother taught him, he drew and painted what he saw in Montmartre. After 1910 his work attracted critical attention, and by 1920 he was internationally acclaimed. In 1928, the French government awarded him the Cross of the [[Légion d'honneur]].{{sfn |Warnod |1981 |p=85}} Throughout his life, however, he was interned in mental asylums repeatedly.

Although his life also was plagued by alcoholism, he lived into his seventies. Maurice Utrillo died on 5 November 1955 in Hotel Splendid in [[Dax, Landes|Dax]], at age 72,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://cdnc.ucr.edu/cgi-bin/cdnc?a=d&d=DS19551105-02.2.17|title=Desert Sun 5 November 1955 Edition 02 — California Digital Newspaper Collection|website=cdnc.ucr.edu|access-date=23 August 2018}}</ref> of a lung disease, and was buried in the [[Cimetière Saint-Vincent]] in [[Montmartre]].

Utrillo is played by [[Bruno Gouery]] in the upcoming film ''[[Modì]]'' directed and coproduced by [[Johnny Depp]] and [[Al Pacino]].<ref>{{Cite news |last=Pulver |first=Andrew |date=2023-05-11 |title=Johnny Depp casts Al Pacino in biopic of Italian artist Amedeo Modigliani |language=en-GB |work=The Guardian |url=https://www.theguardian.com/film/2023/may/11/johnny-depp-casts-al-pacino-in-biopic-of-italian-artist-amedeo-modigliani |access-date=2023-10-25 |issn=0261-3077}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Goodfellow |first=Melanie |date=2023-09-27 |title=Johnny Depp’sDepp's ‘Modi’'Modi' Adds New Cast As Shoot Gets Underway In Hungary |url=https://deadline.com/2023/09/johnny-depp-modi-luisa-ranieri-shoot-begins-in-hungary-1235557352/ |access-date=2023-10-25 |website=Deadline |language=en-US}}</ref>

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==ReferencesBibliography==

*Longstreet, Stephen and Ethel (1958),. ''Man of Montmartre,: A Novel basedBased on the Life of Maurice Utrillo'',. New York,: Funk & Wagnalls, 403 pagesWagnells.

* [[wikilivreshttps:Maurice//wikilivres.org/wiki/Maurice_Utrillo Utrillo|Works by Maurice Utrillo]]{{dead link|date=May 2024|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}}

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