展覧会概要
哀愁漂うパリの風景を描いた画家として知られるモーリス･ユトリロ(1883‐1955)。アルコール依存症の治療のために始めた絵画制作でその才能を開花させ、1928年にはレジオン･ドヌール勲章シュヴァリエ章を受章し、エコール･ド･パリの代表的な画家のひとりとなりました。約半世紀におよぶユトリロの画業の中でも、1908～14年頃の「白の時代」に描かれた作品は特に高く評価されています。ユトリロの生誕140年を記念した本展では、画家としての名声を高めた、白壁の描写が特徴的な「白の時代」の作品を中心に、初期の「モンマニーの時代」、1915年以降の色使い豊かな「色彩の時代」、そして晩年までの作品を国内のコレクションからご紹介します。
Overview of Exhibition
Maurice Utrillo (1883-1955) is an artist known for his paintings of melancholic Parisian cityscapes. He took up painting as a form of treatment for his alcoholism and developed his talents to become one of the leading painters of the School of Paris, even awarded the Knight’s Cross of the Legion of Honor in 1928. Amid his approximately half-century-spanning career, the works he painted during his “white period” around 1908 to 1914 are especially well-regarded.
This exhibition commemorating the 140th anniversary of his birth presents works from domestic collections mainly representing the “white period” that boosted his reputation as a painter, characterized by depictions of white plaster walls, but also his earlier “Montmagny period” and his “colored period” featuring the use of rich colors that began in 1915, as well as his final years.
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