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...mentine Valadon would have remained a fascinating creature. Her striking features, intense blue eyes and mocking impudence attracted most of the painters of her youth, from Puvis de Chavannes to Renoir, Degas, Van Gogh and Toulouse-Lautrec. But because Marie-Clémentine gave birth to Maurice Utrillo, one of the century's most successful, eccentric and curiously talented painters, her fame as model and mother has largely obscured another passion she fiercely nourished: to be an artist in her own right...
...unlikely bivouac in Manhattan's staid Hotel Plaza, paused between stomping and fingernail-castanetting to reminisce about his roving life and good times. One of diminutive (5 ft. 6 in., 125 Ibs.) Dancer Escudero's closest barroom buddies was the late, bibulous portrayer of Montmartre, Maurice Utrillo. Was Utrillo ever sober? Snorted Escudero: "Ah, poor Maurice! When not in his cups he would fall down, so he sought to avoid sobriety at all costs!" Is Escudero's pal, Painter Salvador Dali (on hand at the Plaza opening with his antenna mustache attuned to the wild Spanish rhythms...
Died. Maurice Utrillo, 71, famed French painter of Paris street scenes and landscapes; of pneumonia; in Dax, France. Born in Montmartre, Utrillo was the bastard son of talented, scatterbrained Suzanne Valadon, who had worked as a circus acrobat, a model for Toulouse-Lautrec and Renoir, and was later a top painter herself. An heir to the worst ills of bohemianism (legend has it that he was fathered by Renoir, Degas, or an alcoholic paint dauber named Boissy), Utrillo drank absinthe in his teens, was an alcoholic at 18, began painting in 1902 at the behest of his mother to keep...
...Galerie Charpentier, a mediocre Monet brought more than $4,000; so did a Renoir portrait which was more oddity than masterpiece (it was painted on a ten-inch circular stone slab). A Rouault landscape was knocked down for $5,700, an early Montmartre view by Utrillo went for $5,300, a Still Life with Flowers by Pierre Bonnard was quickly bid up from $5,700 to $14,000. Even a small Chagall gouache went...
...Thirty years ago, a similar poll conducted by Critic Charensol produced an all-star team: Matisse, Maillol, Derain, Segonzac, Picasso, Utrillo, Rouault, Bonnard, Braque and Vlaminck...