Marie-Clémentine Valadon
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Marie-Clémentine Valadon 🇫🇷

Suzanne Valadon (Known as "Suzanne Valadon")
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Born Sep 23, 1865 🇫🇷 Bessines-sur-Gartempe, France
Passed Away Apr 07, 1938 Paris, France
Lifespan 72 years old
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"I painted for myself, out of an inner need to see truth without masks."

Archival Overview

Pioneering French painter, circus acrobat, and artist's model who was championed by Degas, became the first woman admitted to the Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts, and mothered Maurice Utrillo.

Biographical Record

Suzanne Valadon (1865–1938 CE) posed for Puvis de Chavannes, Renoir (Dance at Bougival), and Toulouse-Lautrec before Degas recognized her bold, self-taught draughtsmanship.

Refusing idealized salon prettiness, she painted unvarnished, muscular female nudes, intimate domestic portraits, and landscapes characterized by thick black outlines and fearless psychological candor.

Key Life Milestones

1894

First Woman Admitted to the Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts

Elected as the first female painter in history to the prestigious Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts in Paris.

1909

Adam and Eve (First Male and Female Nude by a Woman)

Painted her bold self-portrait as Eve alongside her young lover André Utter as Adam, celebrated at the Salon d'Automne.

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Final Resting Place

Perpetual Memorial
Saint-Ouen Cemetery
Paris, France
GPS: 48.9094, 2.3389
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