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Eglise Saint-Michel, Limoges (Haute-Vienne)
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Maurice Utrillo (1883-1955)
Eglise Saint-Michel, Limoges (Haute-Vienne)
signed, dated and titled 'Eglise Saint-Michel à Limoges Haute Vienne Maurice, Utrillo, V, 1934,' (lower centre)
gouache on paper
24 1/2 x 16 5/8 in. (62.2 x 42.2 cm.)
Executed in 1934
Eglise Saint-Michel, Limoges (Haute-Vienne)
signed, dated and titled 'Eglise Saint-Michel à Limoges Haute Vienne Maurice, Utrillo, V, 1934,' (lower centre)
gouache on paper
24 1/2 x 16 5/8 in. (62.2 x 42.2 cm.)
Executed in 1934
Provenance
Anonymous sale, Sotheby's, New York, 14 May 1992, lot 154.
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner.
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner.
Exhibited
Tokyo, Seiji Togo Memorial Sompo Japan Museum of Art, Maurice Utrillo, April - July 2010, no. 56, p. 211 (illustrated p. 97); this exhibition later travelled to Niigata, Prefectural Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto, Museum EKi, and Toyohashi, City Museum of Art & History.
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