Suzanne Valadon
Suzanne Valadon , of its true name Valade Marie-Clementine, born the September 23rd 1865 with Bessines-on-Gartempe (High-Vienna) and dead the April 7th 1938 with Paris, buried with the Parisian Cemetery of Saint-Ouen, is a French painter.
Its life
Girl of a nonmarried washing machine, Suzanne Valadon became acrobat of circus at fifteen years, until a fall puts an end to this activity. In the district of Montmartre where it was established with her mother, then his/her son, the future painter Maurice Utrillo, it had the possibility of initiating himself to Article.Its kind of beauty attracted the glance of the artists and it became their model, observing them by posing and thus learning their techniques. It was the model of Edgar Degas, Henri of Toulouse-Lautrec, Pierre-Auguste Renoir and Pierre Puvis de Chavannes, tying relations with some. Accustomed “badly famed” bars of Montmartre where the Parisian middle-class came “encanailler”, Toulouse-Lautrec during this period made of it a famous portrait, entitled the Drinker .
Degas noticed the lines sharp of its drawings and paintings and encouraged its efforts. She knew of sound living success and succeeds in taking cover from financial problems of her youth, providing for the needs for her son, destined for her birth Maurice Valadon, and which took only later the family name of his/her father: Utrillo.
Suzanne Valadon painted died natures, remarkable bouquets and landscapes by the force of their composition and their vibrating colors. It is also known for its naked. Its first exposures to the beginning of the Années 1890 comprised mainly portraits, among which one of Erik Satie with which it had a relation in 1893. He proposed to him the marriage in the morning of their first night. It was the only relation intimates this one, leaving it, as he will say, with “nothing, with share a cold loneliness which fills the head with vacuum and the heart with sorrow”. In 1894, Suzanne Valadon was the first allowed woman with the National company of the Art schools. Perfectionist, it could work several years his tables before exposing them.
Free spirit, odd until the bizarrery, it was known to carry a small carrot bouquet, to have a goat in its studio at only end “to eat its bad drawings”, or to nourish its cats with caviar Friday.
Its marriage, in 1896, with a stockbroker, ended in 1909. Suzanne, then 44 years old, forsook her husband for a 23 year old painter, André Utter, which she married in 1914. This union, surging, was to last nearly thirty years. One of its most known fabrics is Adam and Eve , where André Utter appears Adam and itself Eve.
Suzanne Valadon died on April 7th, 1938, surrounded by his/her friends painters André Derain, Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque, and was buried with the Cimetière of Saint-Ouen.
Its works are exposed today to the Center Georges-Pompidou and the Metropolitan Museum off Art with New York.
Principal works
as a model
- At Pierre-Auguste Renoir * At Pierre Puvis de Chavannes
- Lautrec: the Drinker
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