Gouache on paper. Featuring a street scene. Signed and attr. Maurice Utrillo (French, 1883-1955), on the lower right corner. 20 x 27 cm (7.9 x 10.6 inches). Gallery stamp on verso " XXX, Art Basel Gallerie France". Maurice Utrillo was a French artist noted for his naïve yet picturesque cityscapes. Rendered in thickly troweled paint, the artist portrayed the winding streets and alleyways in the Montmartre neighborhood of Paris. “On a particularly boring day, I had a clever but unfortunate inspiration,†he reflected. “I seized a piece of cardboard, some tubes of tint and petroleum base—since I lacked real oil—and, confronting a typical Montmartre street corner, I suddenly found myself a practitioner of this difficult and thankless art of painting.â€

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