Word: valadon
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...Luxembourg (March 31-July 25), in which 150 artists and photographers take a good look at themselves in dozens of different ways: unsparing closeup (the aging Degas); in duplicate (Dubuffet, with bowler hat); in triplicate (Norman Rockwell, Jacque Henri Lartigue); or, most popular, nude (Suzanne Valadon, Gwen John, Cindy Sherman). Some pose with palettes, others focus on the essence of their art: Henry Moore sketched his strong sculptor's hands. And James Montgomery Flagg used his own face for the famous World War I "I Want You" poster of Uncle Sam. The exhibit is only a small excerpt from...
...rest of the 85 paintings and sculptures, all from the Oscar Ghez collection at Geneva's Petit Palais, cover modern art between 1870 and 1950: Impressionists, Neo-Impressionists, Nabis, Fauves, Cubists and Surrealists. Many of the names are second-tier - Marie Bracquemond, Charles Angrand, Henri-Edmond Cross, Suzanne Valadon - but most of their works (especially Bazille's Family Reunion on the Méric Terrace and Gauguin's bronze bas-relief Three Breton Women) are first-rate. From the moment you walk in the door at the Musée de la Musique, to the sounds of Little Richard...
...next pair of portraits focuses on Suzanne Valadon, a model-turned-artist who was a close friend and student of Toulouse Lautrec. Both “Young Woman at a Table, Poudre de Riz” (1887) and “The Hangover” (1887-1889) depict Valadon in an empty tavern, seated with her elbows propped up on a table. Devoid of the usual uproarious goings-on of a Paris nightclub, the scene in both paintings is sullen, pensive and lonely. A small tin of face powder at the table in the first painting exposes the naturalness...
...show is anchored around the Fogg’s own Toulouse-Lautrec, The Hangover (Suzanne Valadon) (1887-1889) but relies on loans from museums including the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam, the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston...