Son of Suzanne Valadon, Maurice Utrillo is an emblematic painter of the École de Paris.

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After a painful childhood and adolescence marked by early alcoholism and stays in asylum, his therapeutic occupations reveal his genius. In contact with André Utter, a Fine Arts student, Utrillo decided to start painting and exhibiting his paintings, mainly in the cabarets he frequented.

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Beyond his numerous landscapes in the tradition of the Impressionists for which he is recognized, free and naive figuration retained his preference. Urban painter of working-class neighborhoods, especially views of Montmartre, remarkable for their sparse and colorful style and very often deserted.

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In 2010, an Utrillo space was inaugurated in Sannois including fifteen paintings, fifteen thousand photographs and numerous archives.

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Maurice Utrillo's works are part of the collections of prestigious French and European museums as well as the largest international museums: the MoMA In New York, the Hermitage Museum in Saint Petersburg, the Museum of Modern Art from Paris, the Pompidou Center to name but a few. La Pinacothèque de Paris organized an exhibition dedicated to Maurice Utrillo and Suzanne Valadon in 2009. She also presented several of their works on the occasion of the exhibition Modigliani, Soutine and the Montparnasse Adventure - The Jonas Netter Collection in 2012.