MAURICE UTRILLO. 1883-1955

255 LA RUE DU MONT-CENIS

Oil on canvas. 48 X 63 cm. Inv. No 3466 Signed lower right: Maurice Utrillo V This painting was bought through the State Purchasing Commission at the exhibition of Modern Western Art in Moscow in 1928. Utrillo painted the Rue du Mont-Cenis in Montmartre many times. There are landscapes on this theme in a private collection in Bern (La Rue du Mont-Cenis, 1911) and in private collections in Zurich (for example, La Rue du Mont-Cenis, 1913, in the Pollag Collection). Provenance: until 1928 The artist's collection, Paris; 1928—48 The Museum of Modern Western Art, Moscow; since 1948 The Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow

Exhibitions: 1928 Moscow, Cat., 117; 1939 Moscow, Cat., p. 55

Bibliography: Кат. ГМИИ 1961, p. 185; Б. Терновец, "Выставка современного французского искусства в Москве", Искусство, 1928, 3—4, р. 120; В.Тегпо-vetz, "Lettre de Russie. Le developpement du Musee d'Art Moderne de Moscou", Formes, 1930, 3, pp. 22— 23, ill.; Советский музей, 1935, 2, pp. 41—53, ill. p. 48; Sterling 1957, ill. 150; Прокофьев 1962, ill. 166; Antonova 1977, No 123

255 LA RUE DU MONT-CENIS