Maurice UTRILLO : Damaged Church of Charleville - Signed gouache and watercolor
Damaged Church of Charleville After War, c. 1920
Original gouache on paper
Handsigned and dated at bottom right
Size at view 43 x 54 cm (c. 17 x 22 inch)
Presented in a golden wood frame 67 x 79 cm (c. 27 x 32 inch)
Certificat d'authenticité du Comité Utrillo (référence #7542) en date du 12 décembre 2020 et Certificat d'authenticité de Paul et Gilbert Pétridès en date du 12 décembre 1979 (référence dans leurs archives #13.993)
Charleville is a small traditional village in the Champagne area. Maurice Utrillo traveled a few days in this area in 1920 after the First World War and he was touched by this view of the damaged
Church contrasting with the blossom of life and spring.
(As a testimony of this place we include 2 pictures of the Church : before and after reconstruction)
Excellent condition, light defects to the frame
Dimensions :
- Height : 43 cm
- Width : 54 cm
Maurice Utrillo :
(1883-1955) is the ultimate parisian painter, Utrillo was born in Montmartre december 26, 1883. He is the son of Suzanne Valadon and certainly of the spanish painter Miguel Utrillo. Typical painter of The "École de Paris", Maurice Utrillo mostly painted landscapes with houses or parts of villages.
Maurice Utrillo exhibited in many museums, as The MOMA (New York), The Ashmolean Museum of Art (UK), The Carnegie Museum of art (New York), and The "Musée de L'orangerie" (France), The Centre Pompidou, The National Museum of Modern Art (France),The Cantonal Fine-Arts Museum, Lausanne (Switzerland), The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) or The Tate Collection (UK)...
