Marie-Clémentine Valadon (1865 - 1938)

Born 23 Sep 1865 in Bessines-sur-Gartempe, Haute-Vienne, France

Ancestors

Wife of Paul Georges Charles Mousis — married 5 Aug 1896 (to 10 Nov 1910) in Paris XVIII, Seine, France

Wife of André Utter — married 1 Sep 1914 in Paris, Seine, France

Died 7 Apr 1938 at age 72 in Paris, Seine, France

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Suzanne Valadon is Notable.

Biography

Marie-Clémentine "Suzanne" Valadon was born in 1865. She is the daughter of Madeleine Valadon.

Personal Life

She gave birth to a son, Maurice Utrillo, in 1883. Her friend Miguel Utrillo claimed paternity for the boy, but whether that’s accurate is unknown.

Suzanne married a wealthy stockbroker, Paul Georges Charles Mousis, on 65 August 1896 in Paris. The marriage record lists her as a painter. She was livining at 2 rue Cortot in Paris. The couple divorced in 1910,^[1] and she married the painter, André Utter, in 1914. She divorced Utter in 1934.

Artist’s Model

From 1880-1893 she worked as an artists model, and was captured by famous painters including Jean-Jacques Henner, Pierre Puvis de Chavannes, Théophile Steinlen, Pierre-Auguste Renoir and Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec.

Artist in Her Own Right

She worked under the mentorship of her friend, Edgar Degas to learn drawing and etching techniques, before becoming a painter in her own right.

In 1894, she became the first woman painter admitted to the Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts.

Her art was notable due to her depiction of female nudes, which were painted from a female perspective and therefore less idealized than the nudes created by male artists at the time.

In 1895, the art dealer Paul Durand-Ruel exhibited a group of twelve of her etchings which showed women in various stages of their toilettes. Later, she regularly showed at Galerie Bernheim-Jeune in Paris. Valadon's first time in the Salon de la Nationale was in 1894. She also exhibited in the Salon d'Automne from 1909, Salon des Independants from 1911; and Salon des Femmes Artistes Modernes, 1933-1938.

Death

She passed away in 1938 in the 16th arrondisment, Paris, France^[2] and is buried in Saint-Ouen Cemetery.^[3]

Sources

1. ↑ Acte de mariage: Acte 1335, Mariages 1896 Paris XVIIIème, Archives de Paris cote V4E 10351 du 28 juillet 1896 (acte n° 1283) au 12 août 1896 (acte n° 1395) vue 14.
2. ↑ Death registration for Maria Clementine Valadon, 1838, in the 16th arr., Paris. Published by the Archives of Paris. 16D 157
3. ↑ Find A Grave: Memorial #9001153

• Profile for Suzanne Valadon published by the Museum of Modern Art

• Entry for Suzanne Valadon in National Museum of Women in the Arts

• Suzanne Valadon on Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia