Maurice Utrillo c. 1910-11 Lithograph "L' Impasse Cottin" Litho EXCELLENT

Description: L'Impasse Cottin - Maurice Utrillo (1883-1955) Maurice Utrillo’s artworks can be found today in the most prestigious art museums all over the world. Lithograph from c. 1910-11 Oil on CanvasMedium - Lustre Textured The medium is velin paper (non-gluded) with a cardboard backingDimensions - With Frame = W 20" x L 24" Without Frame = W 16" x L 20"Period Centric White Wood with Gold Debossed/ Imbossed Gold Frame, No GlaThe piece was purchased at an antique art showing, 1970.Inscription or on the Back Reads: MAURICE UTRILLO "L'Impasse Cottin" - The Passage Cottin # 47-5503 This picture has been known since at least 1928 simply as 'Montmartre', but it is actually a view up (L'Impasse Cottin) 'The Passage Cottin' or 'The Dead End'...The end of a flight of stone steps leading up towards Sacré-Cœur, a.k.a. The Basilica of the Sacred Heart of Paris, Sacré-Cœur Basilica or simply Sacré-Cœur, which is not included in the painting...the top of the steps is Utrillo's 'dead end'. Utrillo painted two later versions of the 'Passage Cottin' some time between 1912 and 1922 (Pétridès Nos. 215 and 950), both showing views from further up the street and closer to the flight of stone steps. Move from Impressionism to Post-Impressionism The Parisian district of Montmartre was the beating heart of belle époque bohemianism. In its nightclubs and brothels an extraordinary artistic revolution was fermented. Impressionism, a movement captivated by light and movement, had taken artists out of the city to paint en plein air, but by the late 1800s a new and urban approach saw artists enthralled by the heady carnival underworld of the fin-de-siècle metropolis. It was an atmosphere of excess. Utrillo’s life would be dogged by mental-health issues and alcoholism, and yet from it he would forge one of the most important Post-Impressionist bodies of work — a melancholy, lugubrious vision of the streets of Montmartre painted from life, memory or postcards. Utrillo’s "White Period" and Claim to Fame During World War One Maurice Utrillo was unfit for military service because of his emotional instability. It was in the wartime period that Utrillo painted his White Period works. These paintings are defined by a range of white tones, light pastels and a sense of eerie emptiness. The period between 1909-1914 Utrillo produces his most renowned body of work. 'The Cottin Passage' There was no real, vibrant city in Utrillo. Still, the Parisian District of Montmartre he paints is very close to him...he was born there...it was his hometown. This picture depicts the dirty white of the walls...a woman standing near a door...and people walking up the stone steps. His milky whites with grays, pale blues and greens, and flashes of vermilion are notable. The texture makes you want to feel that it is a lonely still life, but instead one gets a feeling of calm.

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