Suzanne Valadon – Center Pompidou – Paris, 75004

The Center Pompidou is devoting a monograph to Suzanne Valadon (1865-1938), an emblematic and daring artist, one of the most important of her generation. On the margins of the dominant trends of her time – Cubism and abstract Art were in the making while she ardently defended the need to paint reality – she placed the nude, both feminine and masculine, at the center of her work, representing bodies without artifice or voyeurism. Suzanne Valadon has not benefited from a monograph in Paris since the one that the National Museum of Modern Art dedicated to her in 1967. Designed by the Center Pompidou-Metz in 2023, then presented at the Nantes Museum of Arts and the Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya in Barcelona in 2024, under the title “Suzanne Valadon. A world of one's own”, the tribute to this ostensibly modern artist and freed from the conventions of her time, therefore continues at the Center Pompidou, in 2025 with a version enriched with new loans and augmented by previously unpublished archives.