Oil paint on canvas
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La Place du Tertre
Presented by the Courtauld Fund Trustees 1926
architecture
cities, towns, villages (non-UK)
countries and continents
France
house
Paris, 18th arrondissement
Paris, 18th arrondissement, Montmartre
Paris, 18th arrondissement, Montmartre, Place du Tertre
places
public and municipal
residential
seasons
shop
snow
square
street
townscapes / man-made features
tree
weather
winter
painting oil paint canvas
21 June 2003 – 28 August 2007
2007-08-28
21 June 2003 – 28 August 2007
2007-08-28
2003-06-21
Tate Liverpool (Liverpool, UK)
http://www.tate.org.uk/liverpool/
2003-06-21
International Modern Art
Collection based display
La Place du Tertre
support: 502 × 730 mm
frame: 704 × 935 × 80 mm
Presented by the Courtauld Fund Trustees 1926
<p><b>Maurice Utrillo</b> 1883-1955</p>
<p><a class="acno-pop" data-gtm-destination="page--artwork" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/utrillo-la-place-du-tertre-n04139" title="View the details of this artwork"><span>N04139</span></a> <b>La Place du Tertre</b> <i>c</i>.1910</p>
<p>Inscribed 'Maurice Utrillo V.' b.l. 
<br/>Oil on canvas, 19 3/4 x 28 3/4 (50 x 73) 
<br/>Presented by the Trustees of the Courtauld Fund 1926 
<br/><i>Prov</i>: [? with Louise Libaude, Paris]; with Léopold Zborowski, Paris; with Reid and Lefevre, London; the Trustees of the Courtauld Fund 1925 
<br/><i>Exh</i>: RSA, Edinburgh, April-September 1934 (236); <i>Samuel Courtauld Memorial Exhibition</i>, Tate Gallery, May-September 1948 (81, repr. in colour) 
<br/><i>Lit</i>: Douglas Cooper, <i>The Courtauld Collection</i> (London 1954), No.81, p.123, repr. pl.65; Paul Pétridès, <i>L'Oeuvre complet de Maurice Utrillo</i> (Paris 1959), No.177, Vol.1, p.228, repr. p.229 (dated <i>c</i>.1910) 
<br/><i>Repr</i>: Tabarant, <i>Utrillo</i> (Paris 1926), p.43; <i>Studio</i>, XCVI, 1928, p.2 in colour</p>
<p>A view of the Place du Tertre on the Butte Montmartre in Paris, looking down the Rue Norvins.</p>
<p>There is strong evidence to suggest that this picture was painted from a picture postcard, though none has so far been traced that shows exactly the same view. Among Utrillo's other <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/p/painting" title="Glossary definition for 'Painting'"><span>paintings</span></a> of the Place du Tertre there is one, made at least twenty years later (Pétridès No.1406, as painted c.1932), which is so similar that both seem to have been done from the same picture postcard. The viewpoint is identical and the trees are in the same wintry, leafless state, but the later picture takes in a little more of the view at the top and the treatment is more precise and detailed. Certain minor differences suggest that Utrillo made a few compositional adjustments in painting the present work, for example by widening the low building second from left, so that it almost blocks off the side street, but in the later version followed his model more literally.</p>
<p>Tabarant relates that the collector Libaude (who took the greater part of Utrillo's production from 1909 to 1914) objected to Utrillo's untidy handwriting and that many of his pictures were signed for him by his mother Suzanne Valadon. She appears to have inscribed this picture, <a class="acno-pop" data-gtm-destination="page--artwork" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="/art/artworks/N04943" onclick="popTateObjects(event, -1, 'N04943');" title="View details of this artwork"><span>N04943</span></a> and <a class="acno-pop" data-gtm-destination="page--artwork" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="/art/artworks/N05143" onclick="popTateObjects(event, -1, 'N05143');" title="View details of this artwork"><span>N05143</span></a>; they may be compared with <a class="acno-pop" data-gtm-destination="page--artwork" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="/art/artworks/N04780" onclick="popTateObjects(event, -1, 'N04780');" title="View details of this artwork"><span>N04780</span></a> and <a class="acno-pop" data-gtm-destination="page--artwork" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="/art/artworks/N05020" onclick="popTateObjects(event, -1, 'N05020');" title="View details of this artwork"><span>N05020</span></a>, clearly signed by Utrillo himself.</p>
<p><b>Published in</b>: 
<br/>Ronald Alley, <i>Catalogue of the Tate Gallery's Collection of Modern Art other than Works by British Artists</i>, Tate Gallery and Sotheby Parke-Bernet, London 1981, pp.735-6, reproduced p.735</p>

Catalogue entry
2004-09-15T00:00:00
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CATALOGUE_ENTRY
architecture cities, towns, villages (non-UK) countries and continents France house Paris, 18th arrondissement Paris, 18th arrondissement, Montmartre Paris, 18th arrondissement, Montmartre, Place du Tertre places public and municipal residential seasons shop snow square street townscapes / man-made features tree weather winter