Suzanne Valadon was a major figure on the Parisian art scene in the early 20th century. Associated with post-impressionism, she influenced numerous artists, including her son, Maurice Utrillo, famous for his paintings of Parisian streets.

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From the age of 15, she was a leading model in Montmartre and posed for Pierre Puvis de Chavanne, Pierre-Auguste Renoir and Henri de Toulouse Lautrec. She also frequents André Derain, Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque.

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His artistic beginnings were marked by the use of lead pencil, charcoal or red chalk. Starting in 1892, Suzanne Valadon painted in oils. She painted still lifes and landscapes, but it was mainly her nudes and portraits that established her reputation. His canvases are marked by a strength of composition and vibrant colors. She is spotted and supported by Edgar Degas who collects her drawings.

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Valadon was the first woman painter admitted to exhibit at the Salon of the National Society of Fine Arts, in 1894. She is also the first woman in the history of art to describe male nudes as objects of desire in her painting, such as in “The Throwing of the Net” executed in 1914. The same year, she entered the Salon d'Automne and also exhibited within the society of modern women artists.

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His works are preserved in numerous museums in France and abroad, including the Museum of Modern Art in Paris, the Museum of Modern Art in Paris, the Orsay Museum, the Pompidou Center, the Fine Arts Museums of Lyon, Besançon, Nantes, Nantes, Nantes, Limoges, Nantes, Nantes, Limoges, Nantes, Limoges, Nancy but also the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York and the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts. The Centre Pompidou-Metz devoted a retrospective to him in 2023, which was taken up and adapted at the Nantes Museum of Arts and the National Museum of Catalogue Art in Barcelona.

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