Les Gobelins (Paris)
Artist
Maurice Utrillo
(French, 1883 – 1955)
Date1938
MediumGouache on paper
DimensionsFrame: 29 3/16 × 34 5/8 × 2 in. (74.1 × 87.9 × 5.1 cm)
Image: 19 7/8 × 25 3/4 × 3/4 in. (50.5 × 65.4 × 1.9 cm)
Image: 19 7/8 × 25 3/4 × 3/4 in. (50.5 × 65.4 × 1.9 cm)
ClassificationsPaintings
Credit LineGift of Gail Green Kobernick and Dr. Sidney D. Kobernick, 1987
Object numberMF87.56
Son of painter and model Suzanne Valadon, Maurice Utrillo began painting at age nineteen as a therapeutic distraction from his addiction to alcohol. Familiar scenes of houses and streets painted with heavy impasto and light tones typify his post-Impressionistic work. Utrillo was especially attracted to the ordinary homes and churches that characterize much of the Paris suburbs, and these themes became his primary source of inspiration. Honoring his mother, he always signed his work Maurice Utrillo-V. or Maurice Utrillo-Valadon.
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