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Vase de Fleurs
Purchased 1939
cup / mug
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painting oil paint canvas
Vase de Fleurs
support: 241 × 190 mm
Purchased 1939
<p><b>Maurice Utrillo</b><span> 1883-1955 </span>
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<p><span><a class="acno-pop" data-gtm-destination="page--artwork" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/utrillo-vase-de-fleurs-n05020" title="View the details of this artwork"><span>N05020</span></a> </span><b>Vase de Fleurs</b><span> (Vase of Flowers) </span><i>c.</i><span>1938-9 </span>
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<p><span>Inscribed 'Maurice Utrillo V.' b.r.</span>
<br/><span>Oil on canvas, 9 1/2 x 7 1/2 (24 x 19)</span>
<br/><span>Purchased from the artist (Knapping Fund) 1939</span>
<br/><i>Lit:</i><span>
Paul Pétridès, </span><i>L'Oeuvre complet de Maurice Utrillo</i><span> (Paris 1959), No.1996, Vol.3, p.236, repr. p.237 as 'Vase de Fleurs' </span><i>c.</i><span>1939; John Rothenstein, </span><i>Brave Day, Hideous Night</i><span>
(London 1966), pp.26-30 </span>
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<p><span>Paul Pétridès dated this 1939 in a letter of 4 June 1953 and </span><i>c.</i><span>1939 in his catalogue raisonné, but as Sir John Rothenstein chose it when he visited the artist's studio on 26 January 1939, its date may well be 1938. </span>
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<p><span>Utrillo only began to paint <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/s/still-life" title="Glossary definition for 'Still life'"><span>still lifes</span></a> of flowers with any regularity in the 1930s. </span>
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<p><b>Published in:</b>
<br/><span>Ronald Alley, </span><i>Catalogue of the Tate Gallery's Collection of Modern Art other than Works by British Artists</i><span>, Tate Gallery and Sotheby Parke-Bernet, London 1981, p.740, reproduced p.740</span>
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2004-09-15T00:00:00
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cup / mug flower kitchen objects plants and flowers