Early Life, Family and Training Maurice Utrillo was born Maurice Valadon on 26 December 1883 in the Montmartre district of Paris, France. His arrival into the world was marked by a certain ambiguity, as his mother, Suzanne Valadon, never revealed the identity of his father. Suzanne was a woman of many lives, having transitioned from a circus acrobat to a sought-after artist's model. Growing up in the bohemian atmosphere of Montmartre,…