Suzanne Valadon (French 1865-1938) La Terrasse du Chateau de St Bernard Pencil on wove paper Signed with initials (lower right) 20 x 16.5cm (7¾ x 6¼ in.) A study for the finished oil of the same title by Suzanne Valadon (1865-1938), [see Marius Mermillon, 'Valadon', pl.39, Paris, Braun et Cie, 1953]. She was born Marie-Clémentine Valadon at Bessines-sur-Gartempe, Haute-Vienne, France, into relative poverty. She became an artist's model as a teenager, famously appearing in works by, amongst others, Renoir and Toulouse Lautrec, the latter giving her the nickname of Suzanne, after Susannah and the Elders, for her perceived preference for working with older artists. Suzanne was encouraged by Degas to develop her own art, eventually becoming the first female painter admitted to the Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts, In 1894. Noted in particular for her female nudes and female portraits, her proto-feminist eye was thought to be influenced by her own experience as the observed model. She was also the mother, at a very young age and illegitimately, of the painter Maurice Utrillo Condition Report: study for a the finished oil of the same title by Suzanne Valadon (1865-1938), [see Marius Mermillon, 'Valadon', pl.39, Paris, Braun et Cie, 1953]. She was born Marie-Clémentine Valadon at Bessines-sur-Gartempe, Haute-Vienne, France, into relative poverty. She became an artist's model as a teenager, famously appearing in works by, amongst others, Renoir and Toulouse Lautrec, the latter giving her the nickname of Suzanne, after Susannah and the Elders, for her perceived preference for working with older artists. Suzanne was encouraged by Degas to develop her own art, eventually becoming the first female painter admitted to the Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts, In 1894. Noted in particular for her female nudes and female portraits, her proto-feminist eye was thought to be influenced by her own experience as the observed model. She was also the mother, at a very young age and illegitimately, of the painter Maurice Utrillo Condition Report Disclaimer
Suzanne Valadon (French 1865-1938) La Terrasse du Chateau de St Bernard Pencil on wove paper Signed with initials (lower right) 20 x 16.5cm (7¾ x 6¼ in.) A study for the finished oil of the same title by Suzanne Valadon (1865-1938), [see Marius Mermillon, 'Valadon', pl.39, Paris, Braun et Cie, 1953]. She was born Marie-Clémentine Valadon at Bessines-sur-Gartempe, Haute-Vienne, France, into relative poverty. She became an artist's model as a teenager, famously appearing in works by, amongst others, Renoir and Toulouse Lautrec, the latter giving her the nickname of Suzanne, after Susannah and the Elders, for her perceived preference for working with older artists. Suzanne was encouraged by Degas to develop her own art, eventually becoming the first female painter admitted to the Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts, In 1894. Noted in particular for her female nudes and female portraits, her proto-feminist eye was thought to be influenced by her own experience as the observed model. She was also the mother, at a very young age and illegitimately, of the painter Maurice Utrillo Condition Report: study for a the finished oil of the same title by Suzanne Valadon (1865-1938), [see Marius Mermillon, 'Valadon', pl.39, Paris, Braun et Cie, 1953]. She was born Marie-Clémentine Valadon at Bessines-sur-Gartempe, Haute-Vienne, France, into relative poverty. She became an artist's model as a teenager, famously appearing in works by, amongst others, Renoir and Toulouse Lautrec, the latter giving her the nickname of Suzanne, after Susannah and the Elders, for her perceived preference for working with older artists. Suzanne was encouraged by Degas to develop her own art, eventually becoming the first female painter admitted to the Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts, In 1894. Noted in particular for her female nudes and female portraits, her proto-feminist eye was thought to be influenced by her own experience as the observed model. She was also the mother, at a very young age and illegitimately, of the painter Maurice Utrillo Condition Report Disclaimer
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