Auction of paintings by Maurice Utrillo

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The auction of paintings by Maurice Utrillo

For the French artist Maurice Utrillo paintings were a kind of cure for madness.

The boy's mother, Suzanne Valadon, attaching the child to art, to save him from nervous attacks. Far from her waiting, she opened the world of genius.

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Maurice Utrillo

Utrillo (Utrillo), Maurice (25 December 1883, Paris - November 5, 1955, Dax, Dep. Landes), French painter, master of the urban landscape, seen through the eyes of a lonely city artist. The main and only theme of his work was Paris, the outlying areas of Montmartre.

family

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the artist's mother, Marie-Clementine Valadon, changed the set of classes (pupil dressmaker, nurse, waitress, acrobat in the circus, etc.) before you became a professional Artist's Model (With her were Auguste Renoir (Auguste Renoir see) Pierre Puvis de Chavannes (see Puvis de Chavannes, Pierre), Vincent Van Gogh (see Vincent Van Gogh), Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (see Toulouse-Lautrec Henri de), etc.) and then the artist (Suzanne Valadon ). Its bold outline confident delighted by Edgar Degas (Edgar Degas see), and mastered under his leadership, the technique of soft lacquer, she began to write in an intense color scheme reminiscent of the Fauves.
Father Maurice mother thought some Boissy, but in an 8-year old boy for no apparent reason has adopted a long-time friend Valadon - Spaniard Migyuel Utrillo-and-Milins, moonlighting as a newspaper sketches, paintings and architectural projects, but he soon left for Spain and not reminded about yourself .
The name "Maurice Utrillo" the artist began to sign his paintings after 1906, before he used the name "Maurice Valadon," or "M. W. Valadon.

addiction

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addicted to alcohol in adolescence (14-year-old boy, alone gets to college in Paris from the suburbs, sometimes a ride and plasterers, amused, entertained with wine), the artist throughout his life, especially in his youth, was prone to violent binge. Because of the addiction he had to quit college (if you could not drink a glass of absinthe, the boy fell into a rage - tore notebooks and clothes, broke furniture and threatened to commit suicide). Attempts to educate Maurice craft also unsuccessful, and 16-year-old became the subject of universal ridicule.
Saved the boy Suzanne Valadon - on the advice of a psychiatrist she began to teach his son to draw, but the first lesson (the mother drove her son on the paper by hand with a pencil) were unsuccessful: Maurice cast naughty pencils, tear cardboard, trying to jump out the window. But gradually the painting drew him.

first experience. Features brushwork

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The first self-made pencil sketches of Utrillo, and then began to paint in oils. In 1903, the fall, he has worked on location (though the 150 landscapes, executed, allegedly by the mother for six months, will be saved - the earliest known refer to 1905).
Over the years 1903-07. He wrote and villages Monmani Perefitt surrounded gently sloping hills and overgrown apple trees. In these landscapes can be traced the influence of creativity C. Pissarro (Camille Pissarro cm), marked by a characteristic shallow abruptly smear. From the works of Pissarro, Utrillo could meet in the Luxembourg Museum and Gallery Durand-Ruel.
However, the impressionistic style of transmission of light and air was not interested in him, much more attracted artists tangible graphic material object. Soon compositional basis for most of his landscapes is receding into the distance street flankiruemaya side curtain houses in the background - a barrier of houses or towers, the sheath sky and make the space is closed. Unlike the paintings by Pissarro in the landscapes of Utrillo reigns even, the same light, the wind is not felt, the sky is almost always cloudless. Artist makes actual forms, generalizing the contours, it reduces the outlines of objects to them; single stroke creates a sense of the slippery stairs or damp plaster, window failures are often just outlines. Oil paint seemed to him too transparent, and to send invoices and moldy plaster walls, he adds sand to the paint, plaster, glue, use lime, puts the pieces of moss, covered with ink and enamel plates, sheets of paper. Rubbing paint into the cup, causing her to the canvas with a knife, smoothing with your fingers. This painting style, formed quite early, with time almost unchanged.