Maurice Utrillo

Maurice Utrillo 1883 - 1955 Lapin Agile à Montmartre sous la neige. Ca. 1930. Oil on canvas. Signed in the lower right and inscribed "Montmartre" in the lower left. 22.3 x 27.1 cm (8.7 x 10.6 in). [MH]. • Mythical Montmartre: The Lapin Agile, founded in 1860, was a legendary artists’ café where Utrillo was a regular. • Village and city scenes are typical motifs of this École de Paris artist. • Paintings by Maurice Utrillo can be found at, among others, the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Hiroshima Museum of Art in Hiroshima (Japan), and the Musée d’Orsay in Paris. Accompanied by a photograph certificate of authenticity issued by Hélène Bruneau, holder of Maurice Utrillo’s moral rights, and Suzanne Valadon, president of the Comité Utrillo-Valadon, dated May 29, 2026. The work will be included in the forthcoming volume of the catalogue raisonné. PROVENANCE: Galerie O. Pettides (stamped on the back of the stretcher and on the canvas, respectively). Private collection. Private collection, New York. EXHIBITION: Maurice Utrillo. Le Montmartre du rêve et de la poésie, Mitaka Municipal Museum of Fine Arts, Tokyo / Chiba Prefectural Museum of Fine Arts / Hokkaido Prefectural Museum of Fine Arts, Asahikawa, April–Oct. 2007, cat. no. 76. Maurice Utrillo: 130e anniversaire de sa naissance, Takashimaya Art Gallery, Kyoto / Takashimaya Art Gallery, Osaka / Takashimaya Art Gallery, Tokyo / Hakodate Museum of Art, Yokohama, April–Sept. 2013, cat. no. 73, p. 97 (with ill.). LITERATURE: Christie’s, New York, auction on November 13, 1985, lot 342. Called up: December 5, 2026 - ca. 16.04 h +/- 20 min.

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