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| | Amazon.com: Suzanne Valadon: The Mistress of Montmartre: Books: June Rose,Suzanne Valadon (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07) |
 | | Montmartre was only a Parisian village when Marie-Clementine Valadon, the illegitimate daughter of a laundress, moved there with her mother in 1870 at the age of five. |
 | | Valadon's work as a model, Rose shows, culminated three years later when she served as a subject for Renoir's The Bathers. |
 | | Shrewd and self-taught, Valadon moved from subject to sketcher and painter, producing portraits, still lifes, landscapes and earthy nudes that earned praise from Degas, Renoir and Toulouse-Lautrec and put her at the center of the area's artistic ferment and scandals. |
| www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/031219921X?v=glance (896 words) |
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