Suzanne Valadon
New York: Crown Publishers, Inc., 1981. 1st Edition. Quarto, publisher's red cloth, spine and upper board stamped in white, original illustrated dust jacket.
Monograph on French painter Suzanne Valadon by visual artist Jeanine Warnod. Originally an artists' model for the likes of Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Edgar Degas, and Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Valadon began to paint full time at the age of 44. Reaching the peak of her fame in the 1920s, she was the first woman painter admitted to the Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts and had four major retrospectives during this course of her life. This survey covers her life from her childhood with her mother in Montmartre, the duration of her career, to her death, and contains firsthand anecdotes by Warnod, who knew Valadon during her own childhood. Illustrated in color and black-and-white plates (some mounted) of still lifes, portraits, nudes, and landscapes. Price sticker to upper flap of unclipped dust jacket. Fine. Item #7065
$65.00