Paul Pétridès, Paris
Private Collection (by descent from the above and sold: Artcurial Briest-Poulain-F. Tajan, Paris, November 30, 2010, lot 11)
Private Collection (acquired at the above sale and sold: Christie's, New York, May 7, 2014, lot 241)
Acquired at the above sale

Paris, Galerie André Roussard, Utrillo à Montmartre, 1993-94, illustrated in color in the catalogue (titled La Maison rose à Montmartre)
Lugano, Le Relart Centre Culturel, Maurice Utrillo, 1994, illustrated in color in the catalogue
Tokyo, Musée d'Odakyu; Fukushima, Musée Municipal d' Art Moderne; Osaka, Musée Daimaru; Fukuoka, Musée Mitsukoshi; Niigata, Musée Municipal d'Art de Niitsu & Kanagawa, Musée Takashimaya, Utrillo et Valadon, 2000-01, no. 51, illustrated in color in the catalogue (titled Rue des Saules et rue Cortot)
Sannois, Musée Utrillo-Valadon, Catalogue du Musée Maurice Utrillo, Suzanne Valadon, 2006, no. 27, illustrated in color in the catalogue (titled Rue des Saules et rue Cortot)

Paul Pétridès, L'Oeuvre complet de Maurice Utrillo, vol. III, Paris, 1969, no. 1284, illustrated p. 21 (titled Carrefour des rues Saint-Vincent et Cortot à Montmartre and dated circa 1930)
Jean Fabris & Bernard de Montgolfier, Catalogue du Musée Maurice Utrillo, Sannois, 1995, illustrated in color p. 53

Executed on card laid down on canvas. The colors are extremely bright and fresh. The surface is nicely textured. A couple very faint lines of craquelure run vertically through the sheet. Some minor frame abrasion to the extreme perimeter. The surface is slightly dirty and some yellowed varnish has pooled in the center and lower right quadrants. Under UV light scattered strokes of inpainting are visible to the top, bottom, and right edges to address prior frame abrasion, as well as along the most prominent central line of craquelure, with a few areas of inpainting applied to address loses associated with this stable craquelure. This work is in overall good condition.
In response to your inquiry, we are pleased to provide you with a general report of the condition of the property described above. Since we are not professional conservators or restorers, we urge you to consult with a restorer or conservator of your choice who will be better able to provide a detailed, professional report. Prospective buyers should inspect each lot to satisfy themselves as to condition and must understand that any statement made by Sotheby's is merely a subjective qualified opinion.
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Carlo Santini wrote that, “Utrillo is a poet: the lonely, isolated poet of a reality that is sometimes trivial in the extreme, sometimes majestic and sumptuous. Utrillo has no need of any special figurative setting: walls, grilles, hoardings, trees, lamp-posts, cobblestones, rows of houses, cathedral towers, pavements, fences, factory chimneys, and great dark windows all take their place in his work with their own peculiar expressiveness. These and many other objects are imbued with feeling, sometimes with drama; they suggest the passage of time, the waning of life, the desperate melancholy of certain times and seasons” (Carlo Santini, Modern Landscape Painting, London, 1972, p. 53).