Image series 06 / 2025: Suzanne Valadon
Radically | Modern | Emancipated
28 January 2025
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By: Bettina Pfleging
The French painter Suzanne Valadon overcame all the barriers of her time, in the second half of the 19th and first half of the 20th century. She managed the break with the role assignment of the woman as a muse and her emancipation as an artist. Today she is considered an important representative of French modernism, and her extensive work is considered extremely radical, with a characteristically compact colour scheme and strong colour contrasts, clear compositions and her own view of female and male nudes.
Around 200 of Suzanne Valadon’s works illuminate her life in Paris, her view of people, her relationships and influences, as well as her legacy.
“Suzanne Valadon”
15 January – 26 May 2025, Centre Pompidou, Paris
Suzanne Valadon. Die Fischer, Ausschnitt, 1914, Öl auf Leinwand, Paris; ArteMIS, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Kunsthistorisches Institut
Suzanne Valadon. L’avenir dévoilé ou La tireuse de cartes | Die enthüllte Zukunft oder Die Kartenlegerin, Ausschnitt, 1912, Öl auf Leinwand, 130 × 163 cm, Genf; ArteMIS, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Kunsthistorisches Institut
Suzanne Valadon. Le château de Segalas, Ausschnitt, 1923, oil on canvas, 730 × 1000 mm, Paris; RMN Musée National D’art Moderne, Réunion des musées nationaux
Suzanne Valadon. The Circus, Ausschnitt, 1889, oil on fabric, 48,8 × 60 cm, Cleveland; The Cleveland Museum of Art
Suzanne Valadon. Autoportrait, Ausschnitt, 1883, pastelpapercharcoalpencil, 435 × 305 mm, Paris; RMN Musée National D’art Moderne, Réunion des musées nationaux
Suzanne Valadon. La Mère de l’artiste, Ausschnitt, 1912, oil on board, 820 × 620 mm, Paris; RMN Musée National D’art Moderne, Réunion des musées nationaux
Suzanne Valadon. Frauenbildnis, Ausschnitt, um 1920, Öl auf Leinwand, Köln; Diathek online, Technische Universität Dresden, Institut für Kunstgeschichte, Sächsische Landesbibliothek – Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Dresden
Suzanne Valadon. Bernard Lemaire, Ausschnitt, vers 1892-1893, oil on canvas, 350 × 270 mm, Paris; RMN Musée National D’art Moderne, Réunion des musées nationaux
