Description:
Maurice Utrillo (French, 1883-1955)
L'Arc de Parc Monceau
Signed "Maurice.Utrillo.V." l.l., titled on the reverse, identified on a fragmentary label and with a stamp from Collection Libaude, Paris, both on the reverse.
Oil on heavy pressed paperboard, 28 5/8 x 21 1/8 in. (72.8 x 53.5 cm),framed.
Condition: Very slight bowing to the support.
Provenance: Etienne Bignou (Ancienne collection Bignou),Paris; Libaude Collection, Paris; Carroll Carstairs Gallery, New York; ...; Christie's, New York, Impressionist and Post-Impressionist Art, November 9, 1999, Sale 9222, Lot 302; to the current private Massachusetts collection.
Literature: Paul Pétridès; L'oeuvre complet de Maurice Utrillo (Paris: P. Pétridès, 1962),vol ii, p. 138, no. 600 (illustrated p. 139; described as oil on canvas).
N.B. The catalog entry for the Christie's auction provides the date of 1916 for this painting.
Estimate $50,000-70,000
Christie's auction labels on the frame and the reverse.
Framed dimensions are 35 1/2 x 28 in.
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