Word: valadon
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...father of Maurice Utrillo? The list of possibilities suggested at one time or another as the sire of the late, famed, alcoholic painter of Montmartre scenes sounds like a roll call of 19th century greats. Renoir used to pose Utrillo's mother, cognac-haired Marie Clémentine Valadon, nude in the back of his garden. Toulouse-Lautrec was' her bosom companion and persuaded her to adopt the more stylish name of Suzanne. Degas took her under his wing, assured...
...Lucie's claim may have something to it. Noted one French critic: "At one time Suzanne Valadon served Chavannes as a model and stayed with him for several weeks." That Chavannes had Suzanne on his mind, there could be no doubt. One of his most famous paintings, The Sacred Wood Dear to the Arts and the Muses, completed in 1884 (one year after Maurice was born), shows twelve figures in diaphanous togas plus three striplings. Model for the adults, male and female: Suzanne Valadon...