La Belle Gabrielle, Montmartre

Details

Maurice Utrillo (1883-1955)
La Belle Gabrielle, Montmartre
signed 'Maurice Utrillo' (lower right)
oil on canvas
21 5/8 x 18 1/8 in. (55 x 46 cm.)
Painted circa 1933

Provenance

Anonymous sale, Christie's, London, 27 June 1995, lot 156.
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner.

Literature

P. Pétridès, L'Oeuvre complet de Maurice Utrillo, vol. III, Paris, 1969, no. 1452 (illustrated p. 71).

Exhibited

Lodève, Musée de Lodève, Utrillo, June - October 1997, no. 66 (illustrated in the catalogue p. 203).
Tokyo, Odakyu Museum, Exposition Utrillo et Valadon, May - June 2000, no. 45 (illustrated in the catalogue p. 117); this exhibition later travelled to Fukushima, Museum of Modern Art, Iwaki.
Kobe, Daimaru Museum, Maurice Utrillo, le 120ème anniversaire de la naissance, March - April 2003, no. 38 (illustrated in the catalogue p. 52); this exhibition later travelled to Kyoto, Sapporo and Hokkaido.

Special notice

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Lot Essay

Jean Fabris will include this painting in his forthcoming Utrillo catalogue raisonné being prepared under the sponsorship of the Wildenstein Institute.

The present work has been requested for the exhibition Cinquantième anniversaire de la mort de Maurice Utrillo to be held at the Musée Takashimaya in Tokyo from September - October 2005 and then travelling to four further locations in Japan until April 2006.

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