Maurice Utrillo
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French painter
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Maurice Utrillo , born Maurice Valadon; 26 December 1883 – 5 November 1955 Biography Utrillo was the son of the artist Suzanne Valadon , who was then an eighteen-year-old artist's model. She never revealed the father of her child; speculation exists that he was the offspring of a liaison with an equally young amateur painter named Boissy, or with the well-established painter Pierre-Cécile Puvis de Chavannes, or even with Renoir. . In 1891 a Spanish artist, Miquel Utrillo, signed a legal document acknowledging paternity, although the question remains as to whether he was in fact the child's father.
