An oil painting on cardboard depicting a Parisienne cityscape after Maurice Utrillo. Unsigned. Maurice Utrillo, 1883 to 1955, born Maurice Valadon was a French painter of the School of Paris who specialized in cityscapes. He is a well-known French landscape painter, who painted mainly views of the Parisian outskirts and suburbs marked by lyricism; by tradition, it is referred to as Naive art. Born in the Montmartre quarter of Paris, France, Utrillo is one of the few famous painters of Montmartre who were born there. One of a kind of artwork.