Sale 1995
New York
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7 May 2008
Price realised
USD 505,000
Estimate
Maurice Utrillo (1883-1955) Pontoise. Rue de l'Eperon et rue de la Coutellerie signed and dated 'Maurice. Utrillo. V. 1914.' (lower right) and titled 'Pontoise. Rue de l'Eperon et rue de la Coutellerie.' (lower left) oil on board laid down on cradled panel 29½ x 41¼ in. (75 x 104.8 cm.) Painted in 1914
Provenance
Galerie Pétridès, Paris. Jacques Zucker, Paris (acquired from the above, October 1954). Gift from the family of the above to the present owner, circa 2000.
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Literature
P. Pétridès, L'oeuvre complet de Maurice Utrillo, Paris, 1962, vol. II, p. 68, no. 494 (illustrated, p. 69).
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