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  Suzanne Valadon - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Suzanne Valadon (September 23, 1865 – April 7, 1938) was a French painter.
Born Marie-Clémentine Valadon at Bessines-sur-Gartempe, Haute-Vienne, France the daughter of an unmarried laundress, Suzanne Valadon became a circus acrobat at the age of 15 until a fall ended her career.
Suzanne Valadon died on April 7, 1938 and was interred in the Cimetière de Saint-Ouen in Paris.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Suzanne_Valadon   (559 words)

  
 Suzanne Valadon
Suzanne Valadon (September 23, 1865 - April 7, 1938) was a French painter.
Named Maurice Valadon at birth, later on her son would take the family name of a close friend and as Maurice Utrillo, he would become one of Montmartre’s most famous artists.
Suzanne Valadon died on April 7, 1938 and was interred in the Cimetière St. Ouen in Paris.
www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/su/Suzanne_Valadon.html   (517 words)

  
 Suzanne Valadon: biography and encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Suzanne Valadon (September 23, EHandler: no quick summary.
(Suzanne Valadon became a circus acrobat at the age of 15 until a fall ended her career.
Maurice utrillo, born maurice valadon, (december 25 1883 - november 5, 1955) was a french painter....
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/s/su/suzanne_valadon.htm   (1487 words)

  
 Suzanne Valadon Biography - Renoir Fine Art Inc.
Suzanne Valadon (original name Marie-Clémentine Valadon) was born in 1865 at Bessines-sur-Gartempe, near Limoges, an illegitimate daughter of a French laundress.
Valadon's powerful renditions of women's bodies probably arose from her own experience as an artist's model and circus performer.
Even if Valadon received no formal art training, she was able (through her close associations with prominent artists) to develop a re-gendering of women's bodies and strength.
www.renoirinc.com /biography/artists/valadon.htm   (510 words)

  
 Suzanne Valadon on artnet
Valadon liked Renoir no better than Puvis, describing him as “all brushes and no heart,” but she still carried on an affair with him.
Suzanne Valadon had a complicated life… Her son also became a brilliant painter - unfortunately, he was also one of Montmartre’s most notorious drunkards.
Suzanne Valadon did not lead an easy life and only now is she gaining the respect that she so richly deserves as one of the great painters of the twentieth century.
www.artnet.com /artist/633000/Suzanne_Marie_Valadon.html   (756 words)

  
 Suzanne articles on Encyclopedia.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Necker, Suzanne (Curchod) NECKER, SUZANNE (CURCHOD) [Necker, Suzanne (Curchod)], 1739-94, French writer; wife of Jacques Necker and mother of Mme de Staël.
Valadon, Suzanne VALADON, SUZANNE [Valadon, Suzanne], 1867-1938, French painter.
He was the son of the painter Suzanne Valadon and was adopted by the writer Miguel Utrillo.
www.encyclopedia.com /SearchResults.aspx?Q=Suzanne   (453 words)

  
 Mark Phillips' Pages: Blog: 10/07/02: Suzanne Valadon's struggle to define her identity.
Valadon's story resonates for me as a model for all who struggle to define their own identity, independent of family, society, and circle.
Valadon's gone there to be herself, and to find her work valued.
Valadon succeeded because of her reliance on herself, that is, because she refused to surrender the self she wanted to be.
www.markphillips.com /blog/2002-10/2002-10-07.blog.html   (915 words)

  
 Suzanne Valadon (1865-1938)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Suzanne Valadon was an illegitimate child and claimed (untruthfully) to be a foundling.
Encouraged by Degas, Valadon became a good painter herself, but she would stand in the shadows of her strange but talented son Maurice Utrillo.
Valadon turned to painting landscapes, still lifes and female nudes, that were naked in an unashamed way that was shocking at this time.
www.xs4all.nl /~androom/dead/valadon.htm   (259 words)

  
 Janet Goodchild-Cuffley - Portrayals
Suzanne Valadon worked from eleven years of age to supplement her mother's income, and became an artists' model at fifteen.
As a working-class woman she was not barred from the bohemian cafes where early modernist art ideas were discussed, nor later prevented from painting the nude.
Valadon exhibited successfully for most of her life, working at her easel until her death at seventy-two.
www.goodchild-cuffley.castlemaine.net /portrayals.html   (638 words)

  
 Valadon, Suzanne - The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition - HighBeam Research   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Suzanne Valadon was a circus performer, artists' model and mistress, and friend of the prickly Edgar Degas.
Elsa Zylberstein plays the artist Suzanne Valadon as a Belle Epoque feminist in love with the little man, as she calls him, but jealous of his talent.
Utrillo's mother was Suzanne Valadon, a model for many very famous painters, including Cezanne and Renoir, and a talented painter who gave her son much...
www.highbeam.com /ref/doc3.asp?docid=1E1:Valadon   (312 words)

  
 Suzanne Valadon
Suzanne Valadon was a Parisian dress-maker's apprentice, a circus-acrobat, and an artist's model in Montmartre, working for Degas, Renoir, and Toulouse-Lautrec among others.
She was one of the brightest lights on the social scene until she became pregnant.
Valadon's work focuses on the psyches of her subjects as manifested in their bodies.
spaightwoodgalleries.com /Pages/Valadon.html   (426 words)

  
 Theatre   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
"Suzanne Valadon: The Nude Who Painted Bac" was created in Ireland but takes as its subject turn-of-the-century Montmartre and the life of Suzanne Valadon, a favorite model of Renoir and Toulouse-Lautrec but a talented painter in her own right.
Gallagher and Rafal play Valadon and the many men in her life while Moreau sings and performs on accordion forgotten music of the period, resurrected through careful research.
In tandem with the performance, slide images of Valadon's work are projected in order, said Mia Gallagher, to let the artist's aggressive line and unusual perspective speak for themselves in helping to rehabilitate this bold and brilliant painter.
parisvoice.com /99/july/html/theatre.cfm   (948 words)

  
 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)

  
 NMWA | Private Collection | Profile - Suzanne Valadon   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
The child of an unmarried domestic worker, Marie-Clémentine Valadon (she later changed her given name to Suzanne) grew up in the bohemian quarter of Paris called Montmartre.
There Valadon supported herself from the age of 10 with a series of odd jobs: waitress, nanny, and circus performer.
From 1880 to 1893, Valadon worked as a model for several of the most important painters of her day, including Pierre-Auguste Renoir and Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec.
www.nmwa.org /collection/profile.asp?LinkID=772   (327 words)

  
 International Fine Print Dealers Association (IFPDA)
Suzanne Valadon was born in 1865 and became a circus performer at the age of 15.
At the age of 18, Valadon gave birth to a son, Maurice Atrillo, who also became an artist.
Suzanne Valadon gained a reputation as one of the most outstanding women in the School of Paris.
www.printdealers.com /artist_template.cfm?id=1558   (117 words)

  
 Amazon.ca: Suzanne Valadon: The Mistress of Montmartre: Books   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
British art biographer June Rose restores Valadon to her proper place as a peer of the great postimpressionists in a readable narrative that puts her freewheeling personal life into perspective as a product of the same refusal to be constrained by conventional wisdom that fired her art.
By her mid-teens, Valadon was drawing "with instinctive and growing confidence," had performed in a local circus and was modeling for artist Pierre Puvis de Chavannes and lesser-known bohemians.
At 18, now calling herself Suzanne, she gave birth to Maurice Utrillo, whose father she did not identify but whose name was derived from...
www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/031219921X   (389 words)

  
 Defiant Women: Artists
uzanne Valadon defied artistic convention by painting nude women with natural, even homely bodies, who she presented matter-of-factly, instead of as sex objects.
She was born out of wedlock, and pretended to have been a foundling.
At 15, Suzanne became a circus performer, but an injury ended her career.
members.tripod.com /cathreese/DefiantWomen/artists/valadon.html   (237 words)

  
 AllRefer.com - Suzanne Valadon (European Art, 1600 To The Present, Biography) - Encyclopedia
Suzanne Valadon, European Art, 1600 To The Present, Biographies
Suzanne Valadon[sUzAn´ vAlAdON´] Pronunciation Key, 1867–1938, French painter.
Valadon was the mother of the painter Maurice Utrillo.
reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/V/Valadon.html   (209 words)

  
 Suzanne Valadon Online
Original works by Suzanne Valadon available for purchase at art galleries worldwide
Suzanne Valadon copyright requests handled by the Artists Rights Society.
All images and text on this Suzanne Valadon page are copyright 1999-2005 by John Malyon/Artcyclopedia, unless otherwise noted.
www.artcyclopedia.com /artists/valadon_suzanne.html   (247 words)

  
 The Abandoned Doll   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Not only does Valadon violate traditional expectations, she presents an adolescent nude who, like most adolescents, is self-absorbed with her appearance.
Valadon's representation of this reality is beautifully portrayed and quickly identified by men and women alike as an integral part of the human experience.
Note: The painting might have served as the inspiration for the poem, "35/10"€ by Sharon Olds, in which there are parallels (see The Dead and the Living, Knopf, New York, 1993).
endeavor.med.nyu.edu /lit-med/lit-med-db/webdocs/webart/valadon46-art-.html   (403 words)

  
 ART / 4 / 2DAY
— Fils de Suzanne Valadon et de père inconnu, Maurice Utrillo naît à Montmartre (Le critique d'art Miguel Utrillo lui donne son surnom).
Modèle de Puvis de Chavannes, Renoir [Jeune Fille se Tressant les Cheveux (Suzanne Valadon) — Suzanne Valadon (1885, 41x32cm) — Dance à Bougival (Suzanne Valadon and Paul Lhote) (1883)], et Toulouse-Lautrec, Suzanne Valadon délaisse son fils pour se consacrer à la peinture.
Suzanne Valadon, conseillée par un ami médecin, encourage son fils, pensant que cette activité peut être une réelle thérapie.
ojourdui.ifrance.com /ojourdui/art/art4dec/art1225.html   (4052 words)

  
 Upcoming.org: Suzanne Valadon: Mistress of Paris at Williamsburg Library Theatre (Monday, March 20, 2006)
Suzanne Valadon transformed herself from an artist's model into a successful artist.
Valadon rose from the hardscrabble existence of a poor, barely educated street child to a wealthy lifestyle with homes in Paris and the French countryside.
She led a lonely childhood in Paris as the daughter of an unmarried and unaffectionate maid, seeking refuge from her bleak circumstances by living in a dream world.
upcoming.org /event/62182   (454 words)

  
 Suzanne Valadon   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Suzanne Valadon was born in 1865, an illegitimate daughter of a French laundress.
She had well-known affairs with the painter Puvis de Chavannes, the composer Erik Satie and the banker Paul Moussis, with whom she lived for fourteen years.
Valadon's son, Maurice Utrillo, became a painter, too.
www.distinguishedwomen.com /biographies/valadon.html   (257 words)

  
 Karla Huebner’s Bibliography: Suzanne Valadon   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
HESE SOURCES will get you off to a good start on Valadon, but you may wish to look up additional contemporary reviews of her work.
A tip for those who have just learned about Valadon: you may find useful tidbits about her in works about her son Maurice Utrillo, Toulouse-Lautrec, and Erik Satie.
“Suzanne Valadon et ses souvenirs de modèle,” Le bulletin de la vie artistique, December 15, 1921, 626–29.
ourworld.compuserve.com /homepages/karlahuebner/valadon.htm   (161 words)

  
 Suzanne Valadon - Search Results - MSN Encarta
Suzanne Valadon - Search Results - MSN Encarta
Utrillo, Maurice (1883-1955), French painter, born in Paris, son of the painter Suzanne Valadon, who was his only art teacher.
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encarta.msn.com /Suzanne_Valadon.html   (117 words)

  
 Gardens   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Posing for such artists as Pierre Puvis de Chavannes, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, and Pierre-Auguste Renoir.
The self-absorption and vitality of her subjects, for instance, are in stark opposition to the essential passivity of females nudes that had until then been the traditional manner of representing womanhood.
Despite her struggles to keep her son, the alcoholic Utrillo, out of jail, in her middle age Suzanne Valadon produced her most powerful paintings which glow with the passion and intensity of her tempestuous life.
stu.aii.edu /~kjk313/imd100/biography.htm   (502 words)

  
 Valadon Suzanne
Maria Clémentine Valadon was born in September 1865 and spent her youth apparently facing some hardship that left her bad memories as her works later suggested showing some anguish regarding the representation of human figures.
At five she came to Paris with her mother and lived in a slum near the Bastille square.
Maria Valadon, who preferred to be called Suzanne, rapidly experienced difficulties with her son who was suffering from some mental disorder and started to become addicted to wine at a young age.
www.artcult.com /valad.htm   (388 words)

  
 Amazon.ca: Suzanne valadon: Books   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
This is a stimulating, mature, jargon-free monograph on the enterprising French model-turned-artist Suzanne Valadon (1865-1938).
Though art historian Rosinsky is perhaps a too cautious feminist critic, she recounts in fascinating detail Valadon's proletarian status, bohemian lifestyle, and astounding innate abilities.
Her vital, corpulent subjects charted modern female experience nearly as bluntly as her daring group of nude self-portraits.
www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/2080684655   (248 words)

  
 SUZANNE VALADON--BIBLIOGRAPHY   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
The Female Nude in the Work of Suzanne Valadon," 217-234, in Betterton, Rosemary, ed.
Mathews, Patricia, "Returning the Gaze: Diverse Representations of the Nude in the Art of Suzanne Valadon," Art Bulletin, September 1991, 415-430.
The Valadon Drama: The Life of Suzanne Valadon.
www.ncf.edu /hassold/womentopics/valadon_bibliography.htm   (88 words)

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