Maurice Utrillo and Suzanne Valadon in the 18th arrondissement

Maurice Utrillo (1883–1955) was the son of Suzanne Valadon, an acrobat and model encouraged, for instance, by Degas, Toulouse-Lautrec and Renoir to develop a powerful expressionist painting talent. Unusually, Utrillo was a painter of Montmartre who was born there. La Maison Rose was immortalised by a number of painters of the time. Utrllo is buried in Le Cimetière Saint-Vincent, Montmartre, and Suzanne Valadon in the Cimetière parisien de Saint-Ouen, both graves of whom are on this blog.

Rue des saules.

Cimetière Saint-Vincent, Montmartre (continued): #4 Maurice Utrillo

Maurice Utrillo (Maurice Valadon)  (1883–1955) was a painter who was born in rue du Poteau in Montmartre and who died in Dax. His mother was Suzanne Valadon (1865–1938) – real name Marie Clémentine Valadon – who was a model for several artists, among them Toulouse Lautrec and Vincent van Gogh.

Maruice Utrillo became a noted painter and received the Légion d'honneur in 1929.