Editing Maurice Utrillo (section)

==Paternity==
[[Image:Utrillo - Tombe - Cimetière Saint-Vincent (Paris).jpg|thumb|Tomb of Utrillo, Cemetery Saint Vincent, Paris]]

An apocryphal anecdote told by [[Diego Rivera]] concerning Utrillo's paternity is related in the unpublished memoirs of one of his American collectors, [[Ruth Morris Bakwin|Ruth Bakwin]]:

<blockquote>"After Maurice was born to Suzanne Valadon, she went to [[Renoir]], for whom she had modeled nine months previously. Renoir looked at the baby and said, 'He can't be mine, the color is terrible!' Next she went to [[Degas]], for whom she had also modeled. He said, 'He can't be mine, the form is terrible!' At a cafe, Valadon saw an artist she knew named Miguel Utrillo, to whom she spilled her woes. The man told her to call the baby Utrillo: 'I would be glad to put my name to the work of either Renoir or Degas!'"<ref>[https://www.nytimes.com/2006/04/22/arts/design/22gogh.html?pagewanted=print 'Parting With the Family van Gogh' in the ''New York Times,'' 22 April 2006]</ref></blockquote>