Word: valadon
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Dates: during 1937-1937
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Artist Utrillo, born 53 years ago, is the illegitimate son of a onetime circus acrobat, Marie Suzanne Valadon, who at the age of 15 became a favorite nude model for Renoir, Puvis de Chavannes and Toulouse-Lautrec, later became a painter herself and is alive today, still painting, with a reputation nearly as great as that of her son. The father was an alcoholic, ill-tempered, untalented painter named Boissy. In 1888, when little Maurice was five, pretty Suzanne Valadon married a Paris importer named Paul Mousis, but M. Mousis refused to legitimize Maurice Valadon Boissy or give...
...doctor at this institute who got him to try painting to take his mind off drink. Suzanne Valadon taught him all she knew, and Maurice Utrillo was soon wandering the streets of Montmartre, painting the white-walled houses, grey roofs and long, empty streets of Paris...