Born Marie-Clémentine Valadon in Bessines-sur-Gartempe, France, Suzanne Valadon rose from humble beginnings to become one of the few women of her generation to achieve professional success as both a painter and a printmaker. Starting as a circus acrobat and later a model for artists like Renoir, Puvis de Chavannes, and Toulouse-Lautrec, she absorbed artistic knowledge informally before becoming a painter and printmaker herself. With Edgar Degas’s encouragement, she turned to drawing and etching, developing a direct, bold style that set her apart from her contemporaries.
She produced a series of etchings, drypoints, and lithographs, many featuring intimate domestic interiors, women bathing, or portraits of family and friends. Valadon’s commitment to depicting working-class life, female bodies, and unsentimental portraiture positioned her as a precursor to later feminist voices in art. Today, her prints and paintings are treasured in collections such as the Musée d’Orsay, Centre Pompidou, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art
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Adèle préparant le tub et Ketty aux bras levés (original French title) Drypoint, etching, and aquatint on wove Rives paper.Reference: Petrides E. 2...
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