Maurice UTRILLO – Autograph letter signed on his art.

Maurice UTRILLO (1883-1955)

Autographed letter signed to Adolphe Tabarant.

A quarto page with frayed edges.

Le Vésinet, Sunday, August 6, 1944.

"All that remains is for me to thank you most sincerely for everything you have written so aptly about my art ."

Touching thank you letter 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, I must thank you most sincerely for all that you have so aptly written about my art . It is your profession; you are undoubtedly a writer and an art critic. I will also tell you that my wife Lucie has been painting superbly . She is neither a beginner nor a professional, nor someone who has attended academies and fine arts schools, or belonged to painting groups. I am very pleased and see in this the hand of God , a divine intervention. I hope you are in good health and embrace you wholeheartedly. Yours devotedly, Maurice Utrillo, V. "

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In 1926, 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 catalogue 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 undoubtedly in reference to this specific text that Utrillo writes, gratefully, to Tabarant, in the letter presented here.