PORTRAIT – Renoir, Degas, Toulouse-Lautrec, Satie… She spent time with great artists and was their model before becoming a painter. The last major exhibition at the Center Pompidou before closing.
After the Center Pompidou-Metz and the Nantes Museum of Arts, Beaubourg welcomes to Paris, just before its closure for renovations, this rebel who first learned painting while being a model. Suzanne Valadon (1865-1938) or the freedom to exist, whatever the cost. This is his galaxy.
Lare masters of the workshop
It was probably at the café La Nouvelle Matthieu or at the cabaret Le Rat Mort, both on Place Pigalle, that Marie-Clémentine Valadon met, towards the end of 1879, at the age of 14, the artists of her time, the most famous of whom were Degas. , Pissarro, Manet, Carrier-Belleuse, Cabaner and Cézanne. « This short meeting was extremely important for the beginnings of Valadon’s modernist training, as it was the first time that this young working-class woman was officially introduced into the bohemian artist community of Montmartre and the fringe world of entertainment. »writes art historian Phillip Dennis Cate in Suzanne Valadon, a world of one’s own (Editions…
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