Maurice Utrillo
Place des Abbesses, Montmartre, c. 1931, 73 x 92 cm, private collection. 
Maurice Utrillo was the son of a famous French painter Suzanne Valadon. She never revealed the father of her son, so Maurice adopted the paternal family name of a close friend of his mother, a Spanish artist Miguel Utrillo y Morlius, who signed a legal document acknowledging paternity.

Maurice Utrillo

Place des Abbesses, Montmartre, c. 1931, 73 x 92 cm, private collection. 

Maurice Utrillo was the son of a famous French painter Suzanne Valadon. She never revealed the father of her son, so Maurice adopted the paternal family name of a close friend of his mother, a Spanish artist Miguel Utrillo y Morlius, who signed a legal document acknowledging paternity.

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