The Moulin de la Galette, circa 1924-1926
Oil on canvas.
Signed lower right.
Oil on canvas.
Signed lower right.
H_38,5 cm W_46,5 cm
Provenance:
- former collection of Jeanne and Fernand Moch
- in the family since
- private collection
The authenticity of this work has been confirmed by Jean Fabris.
Maurice Utrillo
Maurice Utrillo was a French painter who was born in Paris in 1883, and died in 1955. He is known as much for his painting, his alcoholism, as his mother, Suzanne Valadon who was the model of the greatest painters of Montmartre and also a painter herself. Utrillo was noticed by the critics almost from the beginning, and his painting was praised, with what is known as his white period, which lasted from 1905 to 1915, consisting of paintings of a very particular style in which the painter transcribed the whitish walls of Montmartre by binding his colours with glue and chalk powder. Then he animated the formerly deserted alleys with small silhouettes seen from behind with increasingly generous shapes. From 1919 onwards, his fame would free him from any financial problems. He painted Montmartre, where he was born and spent a large part of his life, to such an extent that he became one of its symbols. He is exhibited all over the world, in the greatest museums.
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