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Description
1940
Oil on panel signed lower right.
35 x 50 cm.
It is probably to better signify the Butte Montmartre that the painter has here
Chosen to saturate its composition by leaving little room in the sky. This point of view
Downwards accentuates the rising effect, reinforced by the vanishing line of the street on the left
With its ascending palisade. In the background, two Montmartre symbols are displayed
To better identify the place: the Sacre Coeur and the mill of Galette. The title, bottom
On the left, already informed us. It is the famous maquis of Montmartre, today
Disappeared, and of which Utrillo made himself one of the last witnesses. He painted it dozens of times,
Often from the same point of view, at all times, in all seasons, both under
The snow that, as here in the spring. This mythical place of the Butte, replaced by
The current Avenue Junot, was a miserable but picturesque place built of huts and
Of houses that Utrillo restores us here with naiveté. In the center of the table, next to
The white house on the right, a cottage on stilts gives us an idea of these dwellings
precarious. The woman who stands next to her, with her brushed apron with large features, testifies
Of the wretched population living there. On the date he painted his painting, Utrillo assisted
Yet in the last hours of the maquis. The two women in the foreground, elegant,
Hats, already announce the new inhabitants of a neighborhood soon crested. Right here,
No trace of nostalgia, however, the painter's vivid palette imbues
The atmosphere of a certain cheerfulness. The sunny yellow of the ground seems to ignore the gray sky
Reduced to a single strip, while the orange-red roofs enhances the dominant
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