Perhaps one of the forgotten or overlooked by art history… Marie-Clémentine was born in Bessines-sur-Gartempe, during the Second French Empire (1865). She lived with her mother in Montmartre and started as an artist and model for many artists as well. At the age of 15, she was a trapeze artist at the Circo Pigalle and was contemporary to Berthe Morisot and Mary Cassatt, and like them, she painted mostly women. The difference was that Morisot and Cassatt were both from the upper middle class while Valandon wallowed in harsh poverty…
She gave birth at 18 to Maurice, who would become the famous painter Maurice Utrillo… She married a bourgeois but got bored and ran away with a painter who was a friend of her son, and who was also her male model. A well-known painting of her from that time is Adam and Eve, with André as Adam and she as Eve…
Valadon died on April 7, 1938, from a stroke, and among those attending her funeral were the painters André Derain, Pablo Picasso, and Georges Braque. She is buried in the Saint-Ouen Cemetery.
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Nice 👌
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Thank you Satyam!
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Like the sense of movement in her paintings, even if her characters are not glamorized. Good addition to your women in art series.
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Yes, she definitely is. Thank you 🙏🏻 Pat.
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Very welcome.
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No la conocía. Pero lo que muestras me gusta.
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Que bueno Azurea20. Pues cumpliendo con mi misión, digamos, poniendo mi granito de arena. Muchísimas gracias y feliz tarde.
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Utrillo’s mother. And with her own story. She’s very interesting. Light touch to her images. ‘One of the forgotten…’
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Yes, absolutely. Thank you so much and all the best!
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She definitely deserves rediscovering.
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For sure Mitch. Thank you!
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🖌️🎨🖼️
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🙏🌺🙏🌹🌹🙏🙏
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