Maurice Utrillo: Difference between revisions

{{Infobox artist

| name = Maurice Utrillo

| birth_name = Maurice Valadon

| birth_date = {{birth date|1883|12|26|df=y}}

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==Biography==

 

Valadon, who became a model after a fall from a [[trapeze]] ended her chosen career as a circus [[acrobatics|acrobat]],{{sfn |Warnod |1981 |p=13}} found that posing for [[Berthe Morisot]], Renoir, [[Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec]], and others provided her with an opportunity to study their techniques. She taught herself to paint, and when Toulouse-Lautrec introduced her to [[Edgar Degas]], he became her mentor. Eventually, she became a peer of the artists she had posed for.

 

 

Today, tourists to the area will find many of his paintings on postcards, one of which is his very popular 1936 painting entitled ''Montmartre Street Corner'' or ''[[Lapin Agile]]''.

In middle age Utrillo became fervently religious and in 1935, at the age of fifty-two, he married [[:fr:Lucie Valore|Lucie Valore]] and moved to [[Le Vésinet]], just outside Paris. By that time, he was too ill to work in the open air and painted landscapes viewed from windows, from postcards, and from memory.

 

 

==Paternity==

An apocryphal anecdote told by [[Diego Rivera]] concerning Utrillo's paternity is related in the unpublished memoirs of one of his American collectors, [[Ruth Morris Bakwin|Ruth Bakwin]]:

 

==2010 exhibitions and sale==

In 2010, several retrospective exhibitions were staged, at [[Oglethorpe University]] Museum of Art<ref>[http://www.reporternewspapers.net/2010/06/03/pastel-exhibit-utrillo-oils-create-colorful-contrast-at-oglethorpe/ "Pastel exhibit, Utrillo oils create colorful contrast at Oglethorpe"], Chris North, reporter newspapers.net, 3&nbsp;June 2010, accessed 1 December 2010</ref> and in [[Montmartre]] (Paris) that culminated in an auction of 30 of Utrillo's works on 30&nbsp;November 2010<ref name="Pétridès">[http://www.artcurial.com/en/news/press_releases/2010/2010_11_30_1933-collection-paul-petrides-maurice-utrillo.asp PAUL PÉTRIDÈS COLLECTION: 30 Works by Maurice Utrillo] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101206005224/http://www.artcurial.com/en/news/press_releases/2010/2010_11_30_1933-collection-paul-petrides-maurice-utrillo.asp |date=6 December 2010 }}, accessed 1 December 2010 ({{ill|Paul Pétridès|fr}} (1901–93) was Utrillo's dealer from 1937, and the author of the catalogue raisonné of his work.)</ref> from the collection of {{ill|Paul Pétridès|fr}}, Utrillo's art dealer, whose {{ill|Galerie Pétridès|fr}} also dealt with the likes of [[Jacques Thévenet]]. This follows the exhibition of Suzanne Valadon and Maurice Utrillo's works held in Paris in 2009.<ref name="Pétridès"/>

 

==Notes==

{{Reflist}}

 

*Jean Fabris, Claude Wiart, Alain Buquet, [[Jean-Pierre Thiollet]], Jacques Birr, Catherine Banlin-Lacroix, [[Joseph Foret]]: ''Utrillo, sa vie, son oeuvre'' (Utrillo, his life, his works), Editions Frédéric Birr, Paris, 1982.

*{{cite book |last=Warnod |first=Jeanine |translator-last=Jennings |translator-first=Shirley |publication-place=New York |title=Suzanne Valadon |year=1981 |isbn=9780517544990 |oclc=7573059}}

 

* {{in lang|fr}} [https://web.archive.org/web/20110201174434/http://utrillo.com/ site of Utrillo Estate]

* [http://www.artcyclopedia.com/artists/utrillo_maurice.html ArtCyclopedia - Maurice Utrillo]

 

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