Lot no. 333
Maurice Utrillo
Rue Lépic à Montmartre
Öl auf Holz. 32,8 x 23,2 cm. Gerahmt. Unten links schwarz-rot betitelt '-Montmartre,-' sowie rechts schwarz-blau signiert 'Maurice Utrillo V,'. - Die Ränder mit minimalem rahmungsbedingten Berieb.
Pétridès 1467
Mit einer Foto-Expertise von Hélène Bruneau, Cédric Paillier und Jean Fabris (Association Maurice Utrillo und Comité Maurice Utrillo, Pierrefitte-sur-Seine), vom 18. July 2017. Die Arbeit wird in das Werkverzeichnis aufgenommen und erhält die Identifikationsnummer 1470.
Provenienz
Galerie O. Pétridès, Paris (mit rückseitigem Galeriestempel); Sammlung David Stein, New York; Sammlung Nathan Rabin, New York; William Findlay Gallery, Chicago (mit rückseitigem Galeriestempel); Christie's London, 3.6.1970, Lot 38; Privatsammlung; Christie's London, Impressionist and Modern Art Day Sale, 19.6.2007, Lot 482; Privatsammlung; Europäische Privatsammlung
Literatur
Paul Pétridès, L'oeuvre complet de Maurice Utrillo, Bd. 3, Paris 1969, S. 77 mit Abb.
Geboren im Paris der 1880er Jahre nimmt sich der junge Maurice Utrillo die impressionistische Kunst seiner Zeit zum Vorbild. Vor allem die lichtdurchflutete Malerei Alfred Sisleys beeindruckt den Autodidakten und tatsächlich sollte das Licht zur wesentlichen Konstante seiner Kunst werden. Dennoch dematerialisieren Utrillos Ansichten zu keiner Zeit in abstrakte Farblandschaften, sondern bewahren in Figuration und Lokalbezug eine markante, sehr spezifische Klarheit. Als Kind des Montmartre verbrachte der Maler schon seine frühesten Jahre an jenem Ort, der sein Schaffen so nachhaltig prägen und zu dem es ihn immer wieder zurückziehen sollte. Hier fand er jene atmosphärischen Ansichten, die seine Werke weltberühmt machten.
Über sämtliche Schaffensphasen hinweg vermag Utrillo seine ikonische Formensprache beizubehalten, variiert vor allem in der Intensität der Farbigkeit: Nachdem im Frühwerk noch dunklere Töne vorherrschten, entdeckt Maurice Utrillo in der Bretagne das Licht. Gleißend hell, beinahe überbelichtet scheinen die leuchtend weißen Arbeiten um 1910. Ab etwa 1915, mit zunehmendem Verlust seines Augenlichts, findet Utrillo wieder zur Farbe zurück. Die vorliegende Ansicht der Rue Lépic auf dem Pariser Montmartre zeigt eindrucksvoll, wie sensibel Utrillo seine meisterhafte Differenzierung des Weiß durch vorsichtige Koloration entwickelte. So erhält die Komposition ihre spezifische Dynamik nicht nur durch die sanfte Biegung des Straßenverlaufs und die für den Maler typische Personenstaffage, sondern auch durch die souverän gesetzten Farbakzente. Beinahe experimentell mutet die malerische Gestaltung der Plakatwand rechts an, die der Maler mittels locker übereinander gestaffelter Pinselstriche mit einer expressiven Textur versieht.
Maurice Utrillo
Rue Lepic à Montmartre
Oil on panel. 32.8 x 23.2 cm. Framed. Titled '-Montmartre,-' in black-red lower left and signed 'Maurice Utrillo V,' in black-blue right. - The margins minimally rubbed due to framing.
Pétridès 1467
With a photo-certificate by Hélène Bruneau, Cédric Paillier and Jean Fabris (Association Maurice Utrillo and Comité Maurice Utrillo, Pierrefitte-sur-Seine), dated 18 July 2017. The work will be included in the catalogue raisonné under the identification number 1470.
Provenance
Galerie O. Pétridès, Paris (gallery stamp verso); Sammlung David Stein, New York; Sammlung Nathan Rabin, New York; William Findlay Gallery, Chicago (gallery stamp verso); Christie's London, 3.6.1970, lot 38; Private collection; Christie's London, Impressionist and Modern Art Day Sale, 19.6.2007, lot 482; Private collection; European Private collection
Literature
Paul Pétridès, L'oeuvre complet de Maurice Utrillo, vol. 3, Paris 1969, p. 77 with illus.
Born in Paris in the 1880s, the young Maurice Utrillo took his cue from the Impressionist art of his time. Self-taught, he was impressed by the light-suffused paintings of Alfred Sisley; indeed, light was to become a crucial constant in Utrillo's own work. However, Utrillo's scenes never became dematerialized into abstract colourscapes. Instead, they retained a remarkable clarity in terms of figuration and their rootedness in a specific place. As a child of the Montmartre, the painter spent even his earliest years in the place that was to shape his creative work so strongly, and to which he was drawn time and again. It was here that he found the atmospheric scenes that were to make his works famous the world over.
Utrillo was able to retain his iconic formal idiom throughout all of his creative phases, with his work varying mostly in the intensity of its colouration: While his early oeuvre was still dominated by darker shades, Maurice Utrillo discovered light in Brittany. Gleaming brightly, the luminous white works created around 1910 seem almost overexposed. From about 1915 onwards, as he was increasingly losing his eyesight, Utrillo found his way back to colour once more. The present view of the Rue Lépic on the Montmartre in Paris impressively shows how sensitively Utrillo developed his masterful differentiation of white through careful colouration. The composition thus does not only gain its specific dynamic through the slight bend in the road and the people inhabiting the scene, which are rendered in a way typical for the artist, but also through the confidently placed colour accents. The painterly handling of the poster wall to the right appears almost experimental, the painter having provided it with an expressive texture by employing loose brush marks staggered one above the other.
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