Street in Sannois
Framed: 27 1/8 x 35 3/4 inches (68.9 x 90.81 cm)
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Exposition d’oeuvres anciennes de Maurice Utrillo, Galerie Barbazanges Hodebert, Paris, January 2-15, 1925, no. 24, as Sannois, rue Carnot.
Maurice Utrillo documented the streets, fountains, and avenues of Paris and the villages at the city’s edge. Here, he captured a quiet scene in Sannois, a township in the Paris suburbs. A tidy street is flanked by homes and garden walls in muted shades of cream and gray. Red clay tile roofs and green shutters and trees enliven the scene. A pale blue sky floats above. At the center of the composition, several women pause to talk.
Today, a museum devoted to the art of Utrillo and his mother, Suzanne Valadon, is located in Sannois.
With Galerie Barbazanges Hodebert, Paris, as Sannois, rue Carnot, by January 2, 1925;
Adele Rosenwald Levy (1892-1960), New York, possibly by 1936-1960 [1];
By inheritance to the Adele R. Levy Fund, 1960-1962;
Its gift to The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 1962.
NOTES:
[1] According to Alfred Frankfurter, “Adele Levy and her Pictures,” in The Mrs. Adele R. Levy Collection: a Memorial Exhibition, exh. cat. (Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1961), 9, Levy had an Utrillo in her collection by 1936, although it is unclear if this was the NAMA painting.
Exposition d’oeuvres anciennes de Maurice Utrillo, exh. cat. (Paris: Galerie Barbazanges Hodebert, 1925), unpaginated.
Paul Pétridès, L’oeuvre complet de Maurice Utrillo (Paris: Paul Pétridès, 1959), no. 262, p. 318, (repro.).
Jean Fabris and Cédric Paillier, L’oeuvre complet de Maurice Utrillo (Paris: Association Maurice Utrillo, 2009), no. 385, pp. 456, 630, (repro.), as La Rue Carnot à Sannois (Val-d’Oise).
