A bit of Val-d'Oise at the Pompidou center

A great honor for Sannois (Val-d’Oise). The municipality has, in fact, decided to lend three paintings by Suzanne Valadon belonging to its museum fund for the exhibition dedicated to the artist which is being held at the Georges-Pompidou center in Paris, until May 26.

Born in 1865, died in 1938, Suzanne Valadon was the mother of the painter Maurice Utrillo, who lived in Sannois for three years, between 1912 and 1914, to be treated there, in the clinic of Doctor Revertégat (17, avenue Rozée) of a the evil that was eating away at him, alcoholism.

Suzanne Valadon painted her son.

His Portrait of Maurice Utrillo (1921, oil on paper mounted on canvas) is one of the paintings loaned to the Center Pompidou, with The Garden of Rue Cortot (1928, oil on canvas) and Portrait of the Mother by Bernard Lemaire (1894 , oil on panel).

Exhibition at the Pompidou Center until May 26

The Pompidou Center is currently devoting a monograph to this “emblematic and daring” artist, one of the most important of her generation”, underlines the national center of Art and culture.

“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. »

The exhibition highlights the pioneering role, “often underestimated”, and reveals the great freedom of Suzanne Valadon who does not really adhere to any movement, except perhaps her own.

200 works

The tour offered to the public of nearly two hundred works is based on the wealth of national collections, notably that of the Pompidou Center, the most important, but also of the Musée d'Orsay and the Orangerie. Exceptional loans from the Metropolitan Museum of Modern Art in New York and the Fondation de l'Hermitage and important private collections complete it.

What future for the Utrillo-Valadon mudsée?

The Utrillo-Valadon museum, which opened its doors in 1995 in Sannois at the initiative of the former mayor of Sannois Yanick Paternotte, has been closed for several years.

The building which hosted it, the Villa Rozée, dating from the end of the 18th century^e century-early 19th^ewhich was the former town hall of Sannois, was closed to the public in 2018 for security reasons, linked to a strong threat of the bell tower collapsing. Under surveillance since October 2014, and despite the observation of disorders on the floors, the building was able to remain open but the situation had deteriorated and significant cracks had appeared on the facade and windows.

The return of the paintings

The building, which according to the mayor, Bernard Jamet, represents “the history of Sannois”, is not intended to disappear. It will no longer be a museum but exhibition halls. It must be renovated and accommodate municipal services on the upper floors, the wedding hall on the ground floor.

The paintings of Utrillo and Valadon are also intended to return there, on the mezzanine. Paintings that the City still owns, even if the museum had to part with many of them in 2010 following the break between the municipality and Gilbert Pétridès, owner of the works of Maurice Utrillo.

The mayor assured during his wishes that the renovation work will begin in spring 2025.

“We have never given up on restoring the Villa Rozée to its former glory.”

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