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Suzanne Valadon

Jan 15 — May 26, 2025 | Centre Pompidou, Paris, France

The Centre Pompidou is devoting a monograph to Suzanne Valadon (1865-1938), a bold and iconic artist, and one of the most important of her generation. She was on the fringes of the dominant trends of her time - cubism and abstract art were in their infancy, while she ardently defended the need to paint reality - placing the nude, both female and male, at the centre of her work and depicting bodies without artifice or voyeurism. 

Suzanne Valadon had not been the subject of a monograph since the one devoted to her by the Musée National d’Art Moderne in 1967. Presented at the Centre Pompidou-Metz in 2023 ('Suzanne Valadon. A World of Her Own'), then at the Musée des Beaux-arts de Nantes (2024) and the Museu Nacional d’Art de Catalunya (2024), the tribute to this ostensibly modern artist, free of the conventions of her time, continues at the Centre Pompidou in 2025, enhanced by new loans and new archives. 

I have drawn like crazy so that when I no longer have eyes, I will have them at the end of my fingers
— Suzanne Valadon 
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Marie Laurencin
Danseuse couchée, 1937
Oil on canvas
98 × 130 cm, 38 4/7 x 51 1/7 in

© Foujita Foundation - Adagp, Paris - Photo: Centre Pompidou, MNAM-CCI/Bertrand Prévost/Dist. GrandPalaisRmn