Description: Winner receives a signed oil on canvas painting by well listed French Impressionist artist Maurice Utrillo (1883-1955). The painting depicts Le Lapin Agile Sous La Neige and is coming for sale from the collection of Mamdouha and Elmer Bobst. The piece is signed in the lower right corner, seen magnified in picture 5. The painting has excellent provenance from Sotheby's, who handled the estate in April and June of 2016. The piece also has provenance from TransArt International, Paris, and it retains the original tag with dossier number on the verso, seen magnified in picture 10. In addition the piece retains another import label, seen magnified in picture 9. The canvas is stamped, but we can't quite make out the maker. The stamp can be seen magnified in picture 11. The piece retains its original ornate gallery frame, which can be seen magnified in pictures 7 & 8. The frame also has a gold placard with Maurice Utrillo's name, seen in picture 6. The painting is wonderfully executed, and a fine example of Utrillo's work. The painting is in exquisite condition, with no rips, tears, repairs, staining, foxing, or in-painting. There is minor craquelure in the upper left corner as expected with age, but no other damage to mention. The original ornate gallery frame is also in excellent condition with no cracks, repairs, or major losses, although it does show age related wear including some minor chips and stress cracks. It is a very ornate, finely detailed frame with gesso accents and is in near perfect condition. This piece is an absolute gem and ready for hanging. The frame measures roughly 31" x 28", with the image measuring roughly 21.75" x 18.5". Below is some information about the artist, whose auction results include sales up to $936,000. Please note, this is an authentic Maurice Utrillo original oil painting with excellent provenance. The painting and gorgeous ornate gallery frame need absolutely nothing but a wall to be hanged on. Please feel free to ask us any questions you may have prior to bidding or making an offer. Thank you for checking out our listing. Maurice Utrillo (1883-1955), was a French painter who specialized in cityscapes. Born in the Montmartre quarter of Paris, France, Utrillo is one of the few famous painters of Montmartre who was born there. 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-Cécile Puvis de Chavannes, or even with Renoir. In 1891 a Spanish artist, Miguel Utrillo y Molins, signed a legal document acknowledging paternity, although the question remains as to whether he was in fact the child's father. Valadon, who became a model after a fall from a trapeze ended her chosen career as a circus acrobat, found that posing for Berthe Morisot, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, and others provided her with an opportunity to study their techniques; in some cases, she also became their mistress. 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. Meanwhile, her mother was left to raise the young Maurice, who soon showed a troubling inclination toward truancy and alcoholism. When a mental illness 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. Throughout his life, however, he was interned in mental asylums repeatedly. Today, tourists to the area will find many of his paintings on post cards, 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 Lucie Valore and moved to Le Vesinet, just outside Paris. By that time, he was too ill to work in the open air and painted landscapes viewed from windows, from post cards, and from memory. 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 of a lung disease, and was buried in the Cimetière Saint-Vincent in Montmartre. An apocryphal anecdote told by Diego Rivera concerning Utrillo's paternity is related in the unpublished memoirs of one of his American collectors, Ruth Bakwin:"After Maurice was born to Suzanne Valadon, she went to Renoir, for whom she had modeled nine months previously. Renoir looked at the baby and said, 'He can't be mine, the color is terrible!' Next she went to Degas, for whom she had also modeled. He said, 'He can't be mine, the form is terrible!' At a cafe, Valadon saw an artist she knew named Miguel Utrillo, to whom she spilled her woes. The man told her to call the baby Utrillo: 'I would be glad to put my name to the work of either Renoir or Degas!'" In 2010, several retrospective exhibitions were staged, at Oglethorpe University Museum of Art and in Montmartre that culminated in an auction of 30 of Utrillo's works in November 2010 from the collection of Paul Pétridès, Utrillo's art dealer, whose Galerie Pétridès also dealt with the likes of Jacques Thévenet. This follows the 2009 exhibition of Suzanne Valadon and Maurice Utrillo's works held in Paris in 2009. All of our items have been stored in a temperature controlled environment with no pets or smoking allowed. We strive to provide a wide array of artwork, antiques, and collectibles for everyone from the casual collector to other gallery owners. Whether you are a collector or a reseller, we will always try to work with you to the best of our ability to sell you the item you are interested in. We are always adding new treasures to our collection so please feel free to make an offer, as we constantly are turning over our inventory and need to free space up for our newest finds. 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Price: 79995 USD
Location: Hudson, New York
End Time: 2024-11-26T23:40:39.000Z
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All returns accepted: ReturnsNotAccepted
Artist: Maurice Utrillo
Unit of Sale: Single-Piece Work
Signed By: Maurice Utrillo
Size: Large (up to 60in.)
Signed: Yes
Period: Early 20th Century (1900-1920)
Provenance: Sotheby's New York: Le Lapin Agile Sous La Neige
Material: Oil, Canvas
Certificate of Authenticity (COA): No
Region of Origin: Europe
Framing: Matted & Framed
Subject: Architecture Cityscape
Type: Painting
Original/Licensed Reproduction: Original
Style: Impressionism
Features: Framed, Matted, Signed, Provenance: Collection Of Mamdouha & Elmer Bobst, Provenance: Sotheby's, Provenance: TransArt International, Paris, Dossier# ME16#19137, One of a Kind (OOAK)
Auction Results To $936,000: Provenance: Collection Of Mamdouha & Elmer Bobst
Production Technique: Oil Painting
Country/Region of Manufacture: France
Handmade: Yes
Time Period Produced: 1925-1949
