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Maurice Utrillo (1883-1955)

Lot 222
21.10.2022 14:00UTC +01:00
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Starting price
€ 70 000
AuctioneerCHRISTIE'S
Event locationFrance, Paris
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Lot 222 | Maurice Utrillo (1883-1955)
Estimate value
€ 70 000 – 100 000
Maurice Utrillo (1883-1955)

Carrefour à Sannois

signé 'Maurice, Utrillo, V,' (en bas à droite)

huile sur toile

60 x 81.2 cm.

Peint en 1936-37



signed 'Maurice, Utrillo, V,' (lower right)

oil on canvas

23 1/2 x 32 in.

Painted in 1936-37





Provenance

Madame Kahn, Paris.

Georges Bernheim, Paris.

Confisqué au domicile de celui-ci, 3, rue Dosne, Paris par l'Einsatzstab Reichsleiter Rosenberg (inv. Bernstein 1) le 11 décembre 1940.

Entreposé au musée du Louvre.

Transféré au Jeu de Paume, le 20 octobre 1942.

Transféré par Walter Andreas Hofer au nom de Hermann Göring le 23 novembre 1942 à Allen Loebl en échange de l'artothèque de la galerie Kleinberger, Paris.

Collection Depas, Paris.

Collection particulière, Suisse (acquis auprès de celle-ci); vente, Christie's, Londres, 1 juillet 1975, lot 23.

Vente, Sotheby's, Londres, 22 juin 2004, lot 263.

Musée Utrillo-Valadon, Sannois (acquis au cours de cette vente).

Restitué aux héritiers de Georges Bernheim par la Ville de Sannois, France en mai 2022.



Literature

P. Pétridès, L'Œuvre complet de Maurice Utrillo, Paris, 1959, vol. III, p. 156, no. 1706 (illustré, p. 157).



Exhibited

Tokyo, Musée Municipal des Beaux-Arts de Mitaka; Chiba, Musée Prefectoral des Beaux-Arts de Chiba; Hokkaido, Musée Prefectoral des Beaux-Arts d'Hokkaido et Fukuoka, Musée Préfectoral de Fukuoka, Maurice Utrillo, Le Montmartre du rêve et de la poésie, avril-décembre 2007, p. 77, no. 59 (illustré en couleurs).



Post lot text

Peint vers 1936-37, la présente composition de Maurice Utrillo représentant le carrefour entre le boulevard Charles de Gaulle et la rue Clémenceau à Sannois est une redécouverte à l’historique particulièrement symbolique.
Acquise par le musée de la ville de Sannois en 2004, l’œuvre a fait l’objet d’une récente restitution aux héritiers de Georges Bernheim en 2022.
Marchand d’art au 109, rue du Faubourg Saint-Honoré, Georges Bernheim (1871-1946), défend et collectionne les maîtres de l’impressionnisme à l’instar de Cézanne, Renoir ou encore Degas.
Aux prémices de la guerre et face à la menace antisémite, Georges, sa femme et ses enfants fuient Paris pour leur maison secondaire à Grasse. Lors de leur retour à Paris après la guerre, ils constatent que leur hôtel particulier au 3 rue Dosne a été pillé et que les dossiers et inventaires de Georges ont été volés. Ce dernier entreprend alors des demandes de restitution auprès de la Commission de Récupération Artistique (CRA) - organisme chargé de rechercher directement après la guerre les œuvres spoliées – grâce à sa seule mémoire.
La présente toile a été confisquée le 11 décembre 1940 par l'Einsatzstab Reichsleiter Rosenberg - organisation allemande en charge de la confiscation des œuvres d’art. Elle a ensuite été entreposée au musée du Louvre avant d’être transférée au Jeu de Paume le 20 octobre 1942.
L’œuvre a ensuite été transférée à Allen Loebl, au nom de Hermann Göring le 23 novembre 1942, et en échange de l'artothèque de la galerie Kleinberger, Paris.
C’est la Commission d’indemnisation des victimes de spoliation qui informe en 2015 le musée de Sannois de la provenance du Carrefour à Sannois, et initie les démarches de restitution de l’œuvre aux héritiers de Georges Bernheim.

Painted circa 1936-37, this composition by Maurice Utrillo depicting the crossroads between boulevard Charles de Gaulle and rue Clémenceau in Sannois is a historic and particularly symbolic rediscovery.
Acquired by the Sannois town museum in 2004, this work was recently restored to Georges Bernheim’s legal heirs, in 2022.
An art dealer at 109, rue du Faubourg Saint-Honoré, Georges Bernheim (1871-1946) championed and collected the masters of Impressionism such as Cézanne, Renoir and Degas.
At the start of the war, faced with the menace of anti-Semitism, Georges, his wife and his children fled Paris for their second home in Grasse. On their return to Paris after the war, they found that their town house at 3 rue Dosne had been looted and that Georges’s files and inventories had been stolen. Georges then submitted requests for restitution – based solely on his own memory – to the Artistic Recovery Commission (Commission de récupération artistique, or CRA) – an organisation responsible immediately after the war for searching for looted artworks, objets d’art and books.
This painting was confiscated on 11 December 1940 by the Einsatzstab Reichsleiter Rosenberg – a German organisation in charge of the confiscation of artworks. It was later put into storage at the Louvre Museum before being transferred to Jeu de Paume on 20 October 1942. 
The painting was later transferred to Allen Loebl, in the name of Hermann Göring on 23 November 1942, in exchange for the art library of the Kleinberger Galleries in Paris.
It was the Commission d’indemnisation des victimes de spoliation (Commission for the Compensation of Victims of Looting) which, in 2015, informed Sannois Museum of the provenance of Carrefour à Sannois, and initiated the process of restoring the work to Georges Bernheim’s legal heirs.
Artist:Maurice Utrillo (1883 - 1955)
Applied technique:Oil on canvas
Place of origin:Western Europe, France, Europe
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