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Than Pantera song, Vulgar display of Power, but i very like his street works. Must have a place on our site and his best friend was Amedeo Modigliani. Utrillo never missed it. At whatever hour it was, and even in bars where we had not supposed that we could be welcomed, he emptied pints and seemed to claim the dark poem of Baudelaire: You always have to be drunk, to make it on. him daily demonstrations. In this bizarre, stubborn, tight-lipped boy, drunkenness had its full measure and suddenly manifested itself in fits of anger so furious that one had to prevail. He was then the hero of indescribable scenes, then, in the morning, when the bill was presented to him, he offered to settle the expense with a view of Montmartre which he executed on the spot in a back room of the bistro.

There were soon on the Butte a number of works by this painter, and not the least, which he abandoned in exchange for a slate. However, his first amateurs were not, as the legend says, vulgar wine merchants, but true connoisseurs whom the artist met at his mother's house and who did not spare him encouragement. Suzanne Valadon, very common among painters Toulouse-Lautrec left us an admirable portrait of her had been a model for Puvis de Chavannes and especially for Degas, who gave her her first lessons. She frequented Adele's house, and when she gave birth to a son, proposed to pose for Renoir the charming figures of La Danse a la ville and La Danse a la campagne where we find her again.

Maurice, born on December 26, 1883, rue du Poteau, was registered with the town hall of the eighteenth arrondissement under the name of his mother. The father was, Tabarant tells us in his work on Utrillo, a certain Boissy, an incorrigible bohemian, deeply marked by alcoholism, who covered with a detestable paint the canvases he piled up at home, renouncing to take them to the second-hand dealers in Montmartre". I insist on this point. I will even come back to this later because, if there are still people capable of reproaching Utrillo for his heavy heredity without taking into account the commendable efforts he made for a long time to avoid drinking, I will be able to prove to them that he had at least minus the rare merit of struggling against his vice and finally of triumphing over it.



But let's not anticipate. Maurice, whom Valadon could not take care of, grew up in rue du Poteau under the care of his grandmother, then he was put at the Laflaisselle pension, rue Labat, where he began his studies. He was a very sweet little boy, not very expansive, whose mood swings already had something sudden, irresistible. No matter how well he was treated, he shied away from outpourings and spent entire days withdrawn into himself, sometimes bursting out in incongruous violence. The grandmother understood nothing of it, neither the neighbors, nor either Valadon, whose existence, after the hazards that the trade of model entails in Montmartre, was stabilized for good by her union with a "perfectly distinguished man who, however, never consented to recognize Maurice, but left it to one of his friends "man of letters, journalist, painter, architect, one of the most sympathetic figures of contemporary Spain" who, touched by the despair of the young woman, went on April 8, 1891 to the town hall of his district where, assisted by two witnesses, he gave his name of Utrillo to the child.

He was then eight years old. Shortly afterwards, she was sent to the Rollin college, because Valadon and her husband having settled in Montmagny, the primary school of the locality could not provide Maurice with an extensive education. Free extern, it was, alas, for him the opportunity to prowl in Paris with comrades who dragged him or whom, perhaps, he dragged to the bistro before taking the train, Gare du Nord, and returning home. evening at his house.

One can imagine what habits Utrillo had soon contracted and what temptations he felt, from then on, to satisfy a taste he had from birth. The "red" fascinated him. He saved on the price of his place on the train to afford one, two, often three demi-setiers. During those years, without his being aware of it, the whole drama of his life was playing out and, either because he was not watched closely enough, or because he put his parents on the wrong track, no one noticed nothing. His grades in college were passable. He was working. He had facilities which helped him to disguise his vice, but when he later came to the point of getting drunk publicly, the evil which one would have successfully combated in others took on such proportions in him that one didn't know what to try.

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This is the whole story, the whole secret of Utrillo. His natural inclinations leading him to the sciences, he would certainly have completed his studies without effort if his conduct had permitted it. But she was accumulating scandals to such an extent that his stepfather had to withdraw him from college, get him into the Credit Foncier, then, weary of the struggle, because he continued to drink, keep him at home.