This is the screen-used original Utrillo print “Restaurant au Mont Cenis” we can see on so many episodes of  “I love Lucy” It was sold at auction on July 30, 2013  by PROFILES IN HISTORY for $8,000.  It is a print from an original painting of a street in Montmartre, Paris, by Maurice Utrillo, a native of Montmartre, who painted it in 1922.  It is interesting to compare it to the vintage postcard circa 1908,  photographed from an almost identical vantage point
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