...Alfred Werner Copyright © 1955 by Duke University Press 1955 THAT PUZZLING MAN UTRILLO Alfred Werner THERE ARE TWO Maurice Utrillos; only one of them is widely known. By now everybody knows the Utrillo who was born on the hill of Montmartre, Paris, seventy years ago, the illegitimate child...

.... He has written on Utrillo and Dufy, among others. 360 The South Atlantic Quarterly seen in his beggars and derelicts, yet not until he was well over fifty did the artist, painting the Guernica, take an active interest in politics. Picasso s politics can be traced to his personality. He chose a party...

.... I do not pretend to have discovered anything new. Artists have been discovering it, from Ziem to Utrillo, and now a German writer, in an admirable critical [164] Gray Paree 165 study entitled Is God a Frenchman?, has said it better in prose than anything I have ever read: A vast sea of gray gray...

... France. And he found time to do a great deal of painting. But as he once told me with pride, he never engaged in the wild excesses characteristic of Modigliani, Pascin, Soutine, and Utrillo. Back in the States he fought a long battle for his aesthetic prin­ ciples, never using art for purely commercial...

... Utrillo who was transformed into a do­ mesticated, abstemious, and even devoutly religious squire whose works became only very weak echoes of what he had created in his turbulent years does not repeat itself in Soutine. It is true that as a celebrity he began to hate the pictures he had painted before...

... vacation, to paint a new face without again viewing his model upon his return to Paris in the fall (the picture is now one of the prized possessions of New York s Metropolitan Museum). Though he belonged to the feverish gen­ eration of Utrillo, Modigliani, and Pascin, the Spaniard refused to become part...