Artists

Suzanne Valadon

Press release

Some 200 works, drawings and paintings - the artist's two favourite media - are divided into five thematic sections, tracing the singular career of Suzanne Valadon (1865-1938) from her early days as a favourite model of the Montmartre crowd to her early recognition as an artist by her peers and critics. Bold, ostensibly modern, and on the fringes of the dominant trends of her time, Valadon chose to paint reality and represent the body without artifice or voyeurism. She was the first woman to paint a large-format frontal male nude.