Maurice Utrillo
Maurice Utrillo
French painter Maurice Utrillo, who lived between 1883 and 1955, specialized in cityscapes, was one of the few famous painters born in the Montmartre district of Paris. Maurice, who actually bears his mother's surname Valadon, was given the surname Utrillo by a friend of his mother's, Spanish writer and art critic Miguel Utrillo.
Utrillo was the son of artist Suzanne Valadon, who became a model at the age of eighteen. Prone to alcoholism at a very young age, Utrillo fell ill with a mental illness in 1904, and his mother encouraged him to paint. He soon showed a real artistic talent. Without training beyond what his mother had taught him, he drew and painted what he saw in Montmartre. At the age of 22 he sold his first painting and in 1909 his work was exhibited at the prestigious Salon d'Automne.
Utrillo's work received great attention after 1910 and gained international acclaim in 1920. He received considerable critical acclaim, developing a style of landscape painting that combined features of Post-Impressionism and Cubism. His landscapes and cityscapes brought him national fame, including lucrative sales and the Cross of the Legion of Honor from the French government in 1928.
Maurice Utrillo's Style
The subjects that Utrillo most frequently encounters are the bohemian types of the city; were the buildings in the Montmartre district of Paris, known as a haven for artists, writers, poets and the like. Some of her favorite haunts, such as the Lapin Agile, which is likely to encounter more established artists such as Picasso and Toulouse-Lautrec, are repeatedly represented with only minor variations from canvas to canvas. Taking a cue from avant-garde innovators such as Picasso and Degas, Utrillo used unconventional, if not everyday, materials such as cardboard instead of the more expensive canvas to produce his paintings. However, unlike his idols and mentors, being largely uneducated, his greatest achievement must have been to adapt his absolutely unrefined technique to successive avant-garde styles, Impressionism, Cubism, and Expressionism, to achieve significant critical and financial success. And so he created a series of works that are testament to his natural talents.
Utrillo became a fervent devotee in middle age, and in 1935, at the age of fifty-two, he married Lucie Valore and moved to Le Vésinet, just outside Paris. By then, he was too sick to work outdoors and painted postcards and landscapes through windows.
Although Utrillo was ostracized by the French art establishment throughout his career, he is considered one of the pioneers of the Paris School, a pre-World War I modern art movement characterized by experimentation and pluralism.
Maurice Utrillo Famous Paintings, Works
Utrillo, who died at the age of 72, went back; He left many works of art such as Notre Dame Cathedral (1909), Le Place du Tertre (1910), Berlioz House (1914), Flags on the Town Hall (1924), Rue Saint-Rustique, Montmartre, Under the Snow (1940) and many more.
Maurice Utrillo Paintings, Oil Paint Reproduction, Canvas Prints, Drawing Paper, High Resolution Image Sales
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