Maurice UTRILLO - Autograph letter signed on his art.

Maurice UTRILLO (1883-1955)

Autograph letter signed to Adolphe Tabarant.

A page in-4° with frayed edges.

Le Vésinet, Sunday August 6, 1944.

“It remains for me to thank you very much for everything you have written so aptly about my Art . »

Touching letter of thanks from Utrillo to his art critic, also inviting him to discover the emerging work of his wife Lucie Valore.

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“My Dear Tabarant, It remains for me to thank you very much for everything you have written so aptly about my Art , it is your job, you are a writer and an Art critic without a doubt. I will tell you again that my wife Lucie since last autumn has been painting excellently , she is neither a beginner nor a professional or people who have attended academies and Fine Arts, or paint groups. I am very satisfied and see in this the hand of God , a divine intervention. I hope you are in good health and kiss you with all my heart. Yours truly devoted Maurice Utrillo, V. ”

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In 1926, the art critic Adolphe Tabarant (1863-1950) published a voluminous monograph devoted to Utrillo at Bernheim-Jeune; this work is still authoritative today.

In 1944, in the catalog of the exhibition M. Utrillo, works from 1905 to 1943, visible at the Galerie Pétridès in Paris, he wrote an important text on the life and career of Utrillo: On the margins of a retrospective .

It is without doubt about this precise text that Utrillo writes, gratefully, to Tabarant, in the letter presented here.