Maurice Utrillo (1883-1958)
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Maurice Utrillo (1883-1958)

L'église à Blévy

Details
Maurice Utrillo (1883-1958)
L'église à Blévy
signed 'Maurice. Utrillo. V.' (lower right)
oil on canvas
25½ x 19½ in. (64.9 x 49.6 cm.)
Painted circa 1920
Provenance
Valentine Gallery, New York (by 1936).
Stephen C. Clark, New York (by 1937).
Anonymous gift to the present owner, 1937.
Literature
Cahiers d'Art, vol. 1, 1926.
ArtNews, vol. 34, 2 May 1936 (illustrated on the cover).
The Museum of Modern Art Bulletin, 8:4, April-May 1941, p. 7.
Painting and Sculpture in MOMA, 1942, no. 607.
A. Werner, Maurice Utrillo, New York, 1953, pl. 22 (illustrated; titled A Country Church).
G. Waldemar, Utrillo, New York, 1960, pl. 3 (illustrated in color; titled Church in Paris).
Exhibited
New York, Valentine Gallery, 1936.
Boston Museum of Modern Art, 1938.
Buffalo, New York, Albright Art Gallery, 1939.
New York, The Museum of Modern Art, Gifts of a Trustee, 1941.
Pittsburgh, The Carnegie Institute, October-December 1963.
Tokyo; Kyoto; Fukuoka, and Nagoya, Maurice Utrillo, March-July 1967.
Special notice
This lot is exempt from Sales Tax.
Further details
*This lot may be tax exempt from the sales tax as set forth in the Sales Tax Notice at the back of the catalogue.
Sale room notice
Jean Fabris will include this painting in his forthcoming Utrillo catalogue raisonné being prepared under the sponsorship of the Wildenstein Institute.
Please note the following additional provenance information:
Anon. sale, Me Bellier, Paris, 26 October 1921.

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