Utrillo Montmartre [antikvár]

Maurice Utrillo was born in Montmartre in 1883. Montmartre at that time was still a village centred around its little churchthe oldest church in Paris. Hens scratched about among the uneven paving-stones of the streets, cows chewed the cud quietly in the stables of the old farmhouses, and on the "Butte"the hill of Montmartre" they hadn't started Sacred-hearting", to translate the words of a verse-maker of the day; in other words, the white domes of the neo-byzantine basilica of the Sacré-Cour were still part of a grandiose project on an architect's table. That was the Montmartre of the late nineteenth Centuryquiet and peace-ful, with its little population of village folk and artisans who rarely "went down" to the city. The city in those days lay on the other side of the"outer boulevard", by which name the Pari-sians designated the Boulevard de Clichy, the site of the Moulin Rouge, or the Boulevard de Rochechouart where the Élysée-Montmartre stood.Montmartre, with its serenity, its airy élévation, its light and its gardens, was a paradise for artists, and many a poet and paint.er chose to