Maurice Utrillo

Vase de Fleurs

c.1938–9

© ADAGP, Paris and DACS, London 2018

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Not on display
Artist
Maurice Utrillo 1883–1955
Medium
Oil paint on canvas
Dimensions
Support: 241 x 190 mm
Collection
Tate
Acquisition
Purchased 1939
Reference
N05020

Catalogue entry

Maurice Utrillo 1883-1955

N05020 Vase de Fleurs (Vase of Flowers) c.1938-9

Inscribed 'Maurice Utrillo V.' b.r.
Oil on canvas, 9 1/2 x 7 1/2 (24 x 19)
Purchased from the artist (Knapping Fund) 1939
Lit: Paul Pétridès, L'Oeuvre complet de Maurice Utrillo (Paris 1959), No.1996, Vol.3, p.236, repr. p.237 as 'Vase de Fleurs' c.1939; John Rothenstein, Brave Day, Hideous Night (London 1966), pp.26-30

Paul Pétridès dated this 1939 in a letter of 4 June 1953 and c.1939 in his catalogue raisonné, but as Sir John Rothenstein chose it when he visited the artist's studio on 26 January 1939, its date may well be 1938.

Utrillo only began to paint still lifes of flowers with any regularity in the 1930s.

Published in:
Ronald Alley, Catalogue of the Tate Gallery's Collection of Modern Art other than Works by British Artists, Tate Gallery and Sotheby Parke-Bernet, London 1981, p.740, reproduced p.740

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