Utrillo, Maurice - Pós-Impressionismo
Quinta-feira, Dezembro 21, 2006
Pont et eglise
Huile sur carton
32.0 x 40.0cm sight; 49.0 x 57.0 x 4.8cm frame
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
Église de Le Sacré-Coeur, de Rue Saint-Rustique
Huile sur toile
49.8 x 61 cm (19 5/8 x 24 in.)
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Rue du Mont-Cenis
Huile sur bois
0.750 m x 1.060 m.
Paris, Musée de l'Orangerie
Les maisons - vers 1900
Lyon, Musée des Beaux-Arts
La Butte-Pinson - entre 1905 et 1908
Huile sur carton
0.480 m x 0.370 m.
Paris, Musée de l'Orangerie
La Butte Pinson - 1906
Huile sur toile
38.5 x 46.5 cm.
E.G. Bührle Collection, Zurich
Toits à Montmagny - (vers 1906-1907)
Huile sur toile
0.650 m x 0.540 m.
Paris, Musée National d'Art Moderne - Centre Georges Pompidou
Porte Saint-Martin in Paris - 1908
Huile sur carton
60 x 73 cm.
E.G. Bührle Collection, Zurich
Château de Villetaneuse Titre attribué : Jardin a montmagny - vers 1908-1909
Huile sur carton
0.520 m x 0.750 m.
Paris, Musée National d'Art Moderne - Centre Georges Pompidou
Le Lapin Agile - 1910
Huile sur toile
0.500 m x 0.615 m.
Paris, Musée National d'Art Moderne - Centre Georges Pompidou
Abbaye en ruines - 1912
Huile sur toile
0.610 m x 0.820 m.
Paris, Musée National d'Art Moderne - Centre Georges Pompidou
Rue de Sannois - vers 1912
Huile sur toile
54 cm x 81 cm
Courtauld Institute of Art, London, UK
Grande cathédrale ou cathédrale d'Orléans - 1909 ou 1913
Huile sur carton
0.730 m x 0.540 m.
Paris, Musée de l'Orangerie
Le Cabaret de la Belle Gabrielle - vers 1914
Huile sur toile
28 7/8 x 21 1/4 in. (73.3 x 54 cm)
Saint Louis Art Museum, Missouri
La maison de Berlioz - 1914
Hhuile sur bois
0.740 m x 1.040 m.
Paris, Musée de l'Orangerie
Eglise de banlieue,clocher de village - vers 1917-1918
Huile sur carton
0.600 m x 0.810 m.
Paris, Musée National d'Art Moderne - Centre Georges Pompidou
Terrains à vendre à Gentilly - 1922
Huile sur toile
24 x 34 cm
Private Colection
La Mairie au drapeau - 1924
Huile sur toile
0.980 m x 1.300 m.
Paris, Musée de l'Orangerie
Paysage à Montmartre
Gouache
0.188 m x 0.215 m.
Lille, Palais des Beaux-Arts
La Maison Bernot - 1924
Huile sur toile
1.000 m x 1.460 m.
Paris, Musée de l'Orangerie
Le Moulin de la Galette sous la neige - 1924
Huile sur toile
46 x 55 cm
Private Colection
La rue Saint-Rustique à Montmartre - 1926
Huile sur toile
0.820 m x 0.600 m.
Paris, Musée National d'Art Moderne - Centre Georges Pompidou
Vase de Fleurs - vers 1938-9
Huile sur toile
241 x 190 mm
Tate Gallery, London
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Figuras caminham pela neve, passando pelo Moulin de la Galette, em Paris (Le Moulin de la Galette sous la neige - 1924), um moínho de vento cujas pás se projectam num céu invernoso e triste. Os tufos de erva e os ramos das árvores estão pintados de forma vaga, com pinceladas rápidas, evocando o sentimento geral do cenário. O estilo desta obra, com as suas tentativas de captar a essência de uma paisagem citadina durante o Inverno, aproxima-se mais da arte dos Impressionistas do século XIX, do que dos artistas contemporâneos de Utrillo. O autor é mais conhecido por estes invernosos cenários urbanos, que foram por vezes pintados a partir de postais e não através da observação directa. Não tendo qualquer formação artística, Utrillo começou incialmente a pintar como passatempo, tentando lutar contra o seu grave problema de alcpplismo que surgiu muito cedo na sua vida. Filho da pintora Suzanne Valadon, Utrillo também foi cenografista para o coreógrafo Sergei Diaghilev. É sobretudo admirado pela sua capacidade em exprimir a solidão e o desinteresse pela vida urbana. Maurice Utrillo nasceu em Paris em 1883 e morreu em Le Vésinet, França, em 1955.
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Maurice Utrillo was born in Paris, the illegitimate son of the artist Suzanne Valadon, on 26 December 1883. Under his mother's tutelage he began to paint in 1902, at first in the streets of Montmartre. Working in the tradition of the conventional veduta, he depicted streets, corner buildings, rows of buildings, fountains and avenues captured at different seasons of the year in a style influenced by the lyrical realism of Camille Pissarro and Albert Sisley. However, by deploying a subtle palette - mainly yellows, turquoise, maroon and zinc white - he suffused the scenes with atmospheric qualities that evoke feelings either of familiarity or of alienation in the viewer. Known as his 'White Period' (période blanche), the years between 1909 and 1914 represent the acme of Utrillo's creativity. During it he reduced his palette to white shading into greys. He also mixed his paints with sand, plaster and lime to render the physical substance of his subject matter, walls in particular. In 1910 the artist was discovered by the art critics F. Jourdan and E. Faure. Their appreciation of his talent enabled Utrillo to take part for the first time in the 1912 Salon d'Automne. Until 1914 Utrillo travelled in Brittany and Corsica; his works assumed an increasingly luminous quality which greatly enriched his earlier ascetic conception of reality. In 1924 he exhibited together with his mother Suzanne Valadon at the Galerie Bernheim-Jeune in Paris and was offered a contract for a year. However, that same year he also attempted to commit suicide, which was probably the result of years of alcohol abuse. A powerful natural talent, Utrillo made an enormous contribution to consolidating painterly structure and texture as opposed to the conception informing Impressionism. He was also important as a draughtsman. In 1926 he did stage scenery and designed costumes for Djaghilev's 'Ballets Russes'. He received public recognition in 1928, when he was made a member of the Legion of Honour. Starting where Impressionism left off, Utrillo became the best-known portrayer of Paris, especially Montmartre, painting both from nature and from postcards. His poetic interpretations of the streets and squares of Montmartre contributed substantially to popularizing a romantic image of that quarter. However, when he painted people, they were always represented as solitary beings, lost in social isolation. A first comprehensive retrospective of Utrillo's work was held at the 1943 Salon d'Automne.
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