בידספיריט | Maurice Utrillo by Jeanine Warnod.

Maurice Utrillo by Jeanine Warnod. Crown Publishers 1983 - hardcover with DJ  95 pp good condition   Maurice Utrillo was born on December 25, 1883, of an unknown father. At the time, his eighteen-year-old mother - later to become a master painter herself - was working as a model for Puvis de Chavannes, Renoir, and Toulouse-Lautrec. She would remain at the center of his problematic and painful life. Beset by a vicious circle of frustrated love and alcoholism, this lonely and secretive man could express himself only in his paintings. As she did in her book on Suzanne Valadon, Jeanine Warnod writes with sympathy and warmth about Valadon's son. She strips Utrillo of his melodramatic image and reveals the real character of this sensitive artist, one of the greatest landscape painters of our century. An instinctive artist - a painter of feelings - Utrillo does not fit into any one school of painting. Warnod covers his entire creative career, focusing particularly on the years between 1906 and 1914, often called his > when he produced some of his most extraordinary works: views of churches, of the restaurant « Le Lapin Agile, » and of the