Maurice Utrillo, "Vue de Corte"
Modern Art + Design presents
Maurice Utrillo, "Vue de Corte""
Maurice Utrillo’s style was very unique, he was not a primitivist, classicist, realist, impressionist, fauvist or expressionist, but rather an individualist! Utrillo is most known for his Paris motifs from mainly Montmartre and Montmagny, but he carried out paintings of views from England and Corsica, where he travelled with his mother, the artist Suzanne Valdon, who taught him to paint. In October 1912, Utrillo travelled with his mother and future father-in-law to Belgodère in Corsica. During this stay, his palette became warmer, and a more colourful creative period began. In Corsica, he created artworks that have a strong intensity, the motifs are cityscapes with whitewashed picturesque house facades crowded on a cliff.
In "Vue de Corte" he has visited the old capital of Corsica, a place with a fiery history. The town is beautifully situated on a rocky ridge in a barren, rugged landscape and acts as a divider between the north and south of part of the island. The heart of the city is Place Paoli, where a statue of the Corsican freedom hero Pascal Paoli looks out over the city. Paoli was behind the island's first democratic constitution in 1755. Corte is filled with narrow alleys that climb up towards the citadel, a motif that often appears on postcards from the island. There in the citadel, Corsican patriots were kept locked up during the Italian occupation during World War II. Napoleon Bonaparte said "Everything in Corsica was better and more beautiful than anywhere else", something that fits well with the city of Corte.
In 1931, Carl Milles moved to Cranbrook, a small town located a few miles northwest of Detroit in Michigan. Cranbrook Educational Community is an education, research, and public museum complex founded in 1904 by Georg Booth and his wife Ellen Scripps Booth. In 1927, the Cranbrook Foundation was formed, and when Carl and Olga Milles moved there in 1931, the foundation maintained, in addition to the church, the art museum and the natural history museum, three schools, a higher science institute, an art academy and a Greek theatre.
To be sold at Modern Art + Design.
Estimate: 1 200 000 - 1 500 000 SEK.
Viewing: 10–15 November, Berzelii Park 1, Stockholm.
Open: Mon–Fri 11 AM – 6 PM, Sat–Sun, 11 AM – 4 PM.
Auction: 16–17 November, Arsenalsgatan 2, Stockholm.