LE LAPIN AGILE _ MAURICE UTRILLO / MANUEL MEHAU 

Maurice Utrillo (1883-1955), Le Lapin agile, vers 1912, huile sur carton, 77 x 106,5 cm.

Estimation : 50 000/60 000 €
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https://www.gazette-drouot.com/en/article/utrillos-painting-of-the-lapin-agile-montmartre-1912/61337 

Utrillo's painting of the Lapin agile, Montmartre, 1912

Published on 27 February 2025, by Anne Doridou-Heim

Auction on 14 March 2025 - 14:00 (CET) - Salle 5 - Hôtel Drouot - 75009 

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When a painter and a subject are perfectly in sync, the result is this painting, like a postcard from the Montmartre of yesterday, the one with the scents of cabaret, absinthe and art. 

It's there, modest, with its green shutters open to the light inside, its name partly hidden by the tree in the courtyard. And yet, when Maurice Utrillo painted this work, the Lapin agile was a Montmartre landmark. Immediately recognizable among the architecture of the Butte, which became part of Paris in 1860, the place only became an inn in 1879. That same year, cartoonist…

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