Hiroshima Museum of Art

Maurice UTRILLO

Maurice UTRILLO1883-1955

A French painter who considered as one of the École de Paris. He was born as an illegitimate child of a Suzanne Valadon, and spent lonely boyhood to be an alcoholic, so began to paint for the treatment of it. He specialized in cityscapes such as Montmartre.

A Street at Montmorency
Rue à Montmorency

c.1912 oil on canvas  58.6*79.7 cm

 

The Cathedral Saint-Pierre at Angoulême, Charente
La Cathédrale Saint-Pierre à Angoulême, Charente

1935 oil on canvas  111.0*130.5 cm