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MAURICE UTRILLO French 1883-1955 Tempera on Paper

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MAURICE UTRILLO French 1883-1955 Tempera on Paper
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Ink, tempera, and gouache on paper, framed. Featuring a city landscape scene. Signed and attr. Maurice Utrillo (French, 1883-1955) on the lower left corner. Accompanied with a certificate of authenticity. 26 x 20 cm (10.2 x 7.9 inches). Frame size: 38 x 33 cm (15.0 x 13.0 inches). Maurice Utrillo was a French artist noted for his naïve yet picturesque cityscapes. Rendered in thickly troweled paint, the artist portrayed the winding streets and alleyways in the Montmartre neighborhood of Paris. “On a particularly boring day, I had a clever but unfortunate inspiration,” he reflected. “I seized a piece of cardboard, some tubes of tint and petroleum base—since I lacked real oil—and, confronting a typical Montmartre street corner, I suddenly found myself a practitioner of this difficult and thankless art of painting.” PROVENANCE: Southern Ontario estate