Maurice Utrillo

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MAURICE UTRILLO
by Jeanine Warnod
Maurice Utrillo was born on December 25, 1883, of an unknown father. At the time, his eighteen-year-old mother - later to become a master painter herself - was working as a model for Puvis de Chavannes, Renoir, and Toulouse-Lautrec. She would remain at the center of his problematic and painful life. Beset by a vicious circle of frustrated love and alcoholism, this lonely and secretive man could express himself only in his paintings.
As she did in her book on Suzanne Valadon, Jeanine Warnod writes with sympathy and warmth about Valadon's son. She strips Utrillo of his melodramatic image and reveals the real character of this sensitive artist, one of the greatest landscape painters of our century. An instinctive artist - a painter of feelings - Utrillo does not fit into any one school of painting. Warnod covers his entire creative career, focusing particularly on the years between... Tovább

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MAURICE UTRILLO
by Jeanine Warnod
Maurice Utrillo was born on December 25, 1883, of an unknown father. At the time, his eighteen-year-old mother - later to become a master painter herself - was working as a model for Puvis de Chavannes, Renoir, and Toulouse-Lautrec. She would remain at the center of his problematic and painful life. Beset by a vicious circle of frustrated love and alcoholism, this lonely and secretive man could express himself only in his paintings.
As she did in her book on Suzanne Valadon, Jeanine Warnod writes with sympathy and warmth about Valadon's son. She strips Utrillo of his melodramatic image and reveals the real character of this sensitive artist, one of the greatest landscape painters of our century. An instinctive artist - a painter of feelings - Utrillo does not fit into any one school of painting. Warnod covers his entire creative career, focusing particularly on the years between 1906 and 1914, often called his « White Period, » when he produced some of his most extraordinary works: views of churches, of the restaurant «Le Lapin Agile,» and of the « Moulin de la Galette.» She explores what was exceptional in his art; clarifies many preconceived ideas, enigmas, and paradoxes surrounding his tragic life; and re-creates for us the emotional, social, and artistic atmosphere of Utrillo's times.
Jeanine Warnod is an art critic for Le Figaro, the Paris newspaper. She is the author of several monographs - the « Bateau-Lavoir » and « La Ruche et Montparnasse » among others — and a book on Suzanne Valadon, also published in the Q.L.P. series. She has organized several major exhibitions on these topics as well as on the poets Max Jacob and Guillaume ApoUinaire to celebrate the hundredth anniversaries of their births. More recently she has organized exhibitions, « The Break-Up of Impressionism » and «Around the Review Le Minautaure.»
30 reproductions in color 20 reproductions in black and white
Illustration on the Front Cover:
«Rue Marcadet, » Paris, 1909 Oil on canvas, 23Ve" X 3iy8" (60 X 81 cm] Davlyn Galleries, New York
Illustration on the Back Cover:
Church at Deuil, 1912 Oil on cardboard, 2OV2" X 2lW (52 X 69 cm) Private collection
CORVINA KIADÓ Vissza