Maurice Utrillo (1883-1955)
Property from the Maspro Art Museum, Japan
Maurice Utrillo (1883-1955)

Eglise de Saint-Médard

Details
Maurice Utrillo (1883-1955)
Eglise de Saint-Médard
signed twice 'Maurice.Utrillo.V.' (lower left and right)
oil on canvas
23½ x 28½ in. (59.7 x 72.6 cm.)
Painted circa 1911
Provenance
Sam Salz, New York.
Mr. and Mrs. Edward G. Robinson, Beverly Hills.
M. Knoedler & Co., Inc., New York.
Anon. (acquired from the above, 1957); sale, Christie's, New York, 10 May 2001, lot 378.
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner.
Exhibited
Paris, Galerie Lepoutre, Exposition d'oeuvres de Maurice Utrillo, December 1919, no. 20 (illustrated).
New York, The Museum of Modern Art, and Washington D.C., National Gallery of Art, Forty Paintings from the Edward G. Robinson Collection, March-June 1953, no. 36.
Los Angeles County Museum, and San Francisco, California Palace of the Legion of Honor, The Gladys Lloyd Robinson and Edward G. Robinson Collection, September 1956-January 1957, no. 68 (illustrated).
New York, M. Knoedler & Co., Inc.; Ottawa, National Gallery of Canada, and Boston, Museum of Fine Arts, A Loan Exhibition of Paintings and Sculpture from the Niarchos Collection, December 1957-April 1958, p. 128, no. 60 (illustrated, p. 129), no. 63 (Boston venue).
London, The Tate Gallery, The Niarchos Collection, May-June 1958, p. 14, no. 65 (illustrated, pl. 58).
Athens, National Picture Gallery, The Niarchos Art Collection, August-September 1958, no. 55.
Zurich, Kunsthaus, Sammlung S. Niarchos, January-March 1959, no. 54.

Lot Essay

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

More from Impressionist and Modern Art (Day Sale)

View All
View All