37 Facts About Suzanne Valadon

In 1894, Suzanne Valadon became the first woman painter admitted to the.

Suzanne Valadon spent nearly 40 years of her life as an artist.

Suzanne Valadon never attended the academy and was never confined within a set tradition or style of art.

Suzanne Valadon grew up in poverty with her mother, an unmarried laundress in Montmartre.

Suzanne Valadon had a series of jobs that included working in a milliner's workshop, at a factory making funeral wreaths, selling vegetables, and as a waitress.

Suzanne Valadon was able to work at the circus because of her connection with Count Antoine de La Rochefoucauld and Theo Wagner, two symbolist painters, who were involved in decorating a circus belonging to Medrano.

Suzanne Valadon began working as a model in 1880 in Montmartre at age 15.

Suzanne Valadon modeled under the name "Maria" before being nicknamed "Suzanne" by Toulouse-Lautrec, after the biblical story of Susanna and the Elders as he felt that she especially preferred modeling for older artists.

Suzanne Valadon was Toulouse-Lautrec's lover for two years, which ended when she attempted suicide in 1888.

Suzanne Valadon learned and furthered her art by observing the techniques of the artists for whom she posed.

Suzanne Valadon was considered a very focused, ambitious, rebellious, determined, self-confident, and passionate woman.

Suzanne Valadon remained one of his closest friends until his death in 1917.

Suzanne Valadon frequented the bars and taverns of Paris with her fellow painters and she was Toulouse-Lautrec's subject in his oil painting The Hangover.

Suzanne Valadon was admitted to professional associations and her works were admitted to juried exhibitions.

Suzanne Valadon's earliest surviving signed and dated work is a self-portrait from 1883, drawn in charcoal and pastel.

Suzanne Valadon produced mostly drawings between 1883 and 1893, and began painting in 1892.

Suzanne Valadon painted still lifes, portraits, flowers, and landscapes that are noted for their strong composition and vibrant colors.

Suzanne Valadon was best known for her candid female nudes.

Suzanne Valadon's work attracted attention partly because, by painting unidealized nudes, she upset the social norms of the time that had been created by male artists.

Suzanne Valadon's earliest known female nude was executed in 1892.

In 1895, the art dealer Paul Durand-Ruel exhibited a group of twelve etchings by Suzanne Valadon that show women in various stages of their toilettes.

Suzanne Valadon was the first woman painter accepted as an exhibitor in the Salon de la Nationale in 1894, which is notable since competition for acceptance was fierce.

Suzanne Valadon exhibited in the Salon d'Automne from 1909, in the Salon des Independants from 1911, and in the Salon des Femmes Artistes Modernes from 1933 to 1938.

Suzanne Valadon made a shift from drawing to painting in 1909.

Suzanne Valadon was well known during her lifetime, especially toward the end of her career, in the 1920s more specifically, as she helped to transform the female nude that depicted expression through a woman's experience.

Suzanne Valadon's works are in the collection of the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris, the Museum of Grenoble, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, among others.

Suzanne Valadon was not confined to a specific style, yet both Symbolist and Post-Impressionist aesthetics are clearly demonstrated within her work.

Suzanne Valadon worked primarily with oil paint, oil pencils, pastels, and red chalk; she did not use ink or watercolor because these mediums were too fluid for her preference.

Suzanne Valadon has been noted for that difference in her paintings of the nude women.

Suzanne Valadon painted many nude self-portraits across the span of her career, the later of which displayed her aging body realistically.

Suzanne Valadon emphasized the importance of the composition of her portraits over techniques such as painting expressive eyes.

In 1883, aged 18, Suzanne Valadon gave birth to a son, Maurice Utrillo.

Suzanne Valadon's mother cared for Maurice while she returned to modelling.

In 1893, Suzanne Valadon began a short-lived affair with composer Erik Satie, moving to a room next to his on the.

In 1909, Suzanne Valadon began an affair with the painter Andre Utter, a 23-year-old friend of her son.

Suzanne Valadon became a model for her and appears as Adam in Adam et Eve, which was painted that year.

Suzanne Valadon died of a stroke on 7 April 1938, at the age of 72, and was buried in Division 13 of the Cimetiere de Saint-Ouen, Paris.