From October 27, 2023 to February 11, 2024, the Nantes Museum of Fine Arts is presenting a retrospective dedicated to Suzanne Valadon (1865-1938). Initiated by the Centre Pompidou-Metz and taken up and adapted by the museum, the exhibition aims to restore this artist to the place her contemporaries gave her during her lifetime.
Suzanne Valadon (1865-1938), a self-taught artist with an extraordinary destiny, left behind a fascinating, transgressive and uncompromising body of work. She passionately defends the need to depict reality and breaks with the traditional idealization of bodies. She paints intimate scenes of everyday life with clear contours and a chromatic richness of incredible modernity. With the masterpiece Les Baigneuses (1923), acquired in 1957 thanks to the Friends of the Museum, the Nantes Art Museum pays tribute to this self-taught artist, to whom art history paid little attention after his death.
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With around 120 paintings and works on paper, the exhibition traces his journey through the Parisian art scene at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries, from his years as a model (for Auguste Renoir, Pierre Puvis de Chavannes, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec). ...) to his most radical personal works. The freedom with which she approaches traditional genres of painting (nudes, portraits, still lifes, landscapes) underlines the central position of this emblematic figure of avant-garde Montmartre.
October 27, 2023 to February 11, 2024
