Under the name of each artist was a brief and extremely reticent biography. One of these referred to a Spanish artist named Maurice Utrillo, 1883-deceased, painter of Paris street scenes.

Yet Utrillo was happy to paint prosaic but beautiful scenes, such as "L'Eglise de Saint-Medard a Paris" (1906), that reveal an unpretentious mastery of color and a reassuring solidity of composition.

Utrillo was cold-shouldered by the art world for many years but is now an admired post-impressionist painter, along with artists such as Monet and Renoir. In December his painting Le Parevent ...

Paris: Suzanne Valadon and her son Maurice Utrillo were central figures in the harsh world of bohemian Montmartre at the turn of the 20th century. Valadon, born the illegitimate child of a ...