Valadon, Suzanne
Valadon, Suzanne
(süzän` välädôN`), 1867–1938, French painter. After abandoning successful careers as an acrobat and as artist's model to many of the major impressionists, Valadon, encouraged by Toulouse-Lautrec and Degas, became a painter. Her fresh, intensely personal works, including landscapes, nudes, and portraits, are executed in vibrant colors with heavy black outlines. Valadon was the mother of the painter Maurice UtrilloUtrillo, Maurice, 1883–1955, French painter. He was the son of the painter Suzanne Valadon and was adopted by the writer Miguel Utrillo. His mother taught him to paint in order to divert him from the alcoholism that ravaged him from a very early age.
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Bibliography
See biographies by J. Rose (1998), J. Storm (2017), and C. Hewitt (2018).