id: 130876 accession number: 1953.574 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1953.574 updated: 2023-03-11 11:02:43.279000 Nude Woman Seated on a Bed, first third 20th century. Suzanne Valadon (French, 1865–1938). Red chalk; sheet: 31 x 23.6 cm (12 3/16 x 9 5/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Mrs. Malcolm L. McBride 1953.574 title: Nude Woman Seated on a Bed title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: first third 20th century creation date earliest: 1867 creation date latest: 1938 current location: creditline: Gift of Mrs. Malcolm L. McBride copyright: --- culture: France, 20th century technique: red chalk department: Drawings collection: DR - French type: Drawing find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS * Suzanne Valadon (French, 1865–1938) - artist Born out of wedlock under the given name Marie-Clémentine, Suzanne Valadon spent her early years in Paris and Nantes, where her single mother worked as a cleaning woman. Valadon was enrolled in a religious school in Paris until 1876, then apprenticed in a dressmaking shop, a florist, and an open-air market before she started drawing. She briefly worked as a trapeze artist in a circus in the beginning of the 1880s, but a fall forced her to look for another occupation. She then began working as a model, posing for Henner (q.v.), Puvis de Chavannes (q.v.), Renoir (q.v.), Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (1864-1901), and several other painters. Around this time she chose to be called Suzanne. In 1883, when she was eighteen years old, she gave birth to a son, future painter Maurice Utrillo (1883-1955). Encouraged by Degas (q.v.) and Renoir, she became a full-time painter in 1896, financially supported by her new husband, Paul Mousis. Degas taught her printmaking and introduced her to the dealers Durand-Ruel and Vollard. Valadon divorced Mousis in 1909 to marry André Utter (1886-1948), a painter and a friend of her son. Beginning in 1909 she exhibited regularly at the Salon d'Automne, and from 1912 she participated in the Salon des Indépendants. Valadon painted portraits, landscapes, nudes, and still lifes. --- measurements: Sheet: 31 x 23.6 cm (12 3/16 x 9 5/16 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: description: beige(1) modern laid paper watermarks: inscriptions: inscription: signed, lower left, in black crayon: S. Valadon ; lower left, in graphite: so ; lower right, in graphite?: [illegible] 400 [illegible] [partially erased] ; lower right, in graphite: 40- ; VERSO, lower left, in graphite: 4005 [sideways] translation: remark: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: French Drawings opening date: 1965-11-16T05:00:00 French Drawings. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 16, 1965-February 16, 1966). title: Directions in Drawing II: The Human Figure opening date: 1991-11-05T05:00:00 Directions in Drawing II: The Human Figure. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 5, 1991-January 12, 1992). title: French Drawings from the Collection opening date: 1994-12-13T05:00:00 French Drawings from the Collection. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (December 13, 1994-March 12, 1995). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS * CMA, French Drawings from the Collection (Dec. 13, 1994-Mar. 12, 1995).
CMA, French Drawings (Nov. 10, 1965-Feb. 16, 1966; re-opened Mar. 31, 1966).
CMA, 19th and 20th Century Drawings (Feb. 19-Mar. 24, 1965).
city?, Peter H. Deitsch Gallery, Prints and Drawings by Suzanne Valadon (Apr. 30-May 19, 1956), no. 20.
CMA, "French Drawings, Gallery XVI" (Mar. 14-June 15, 1955).
CMA, "Drawings from the Collection, Gallery VIII" (June 15-Aug. 10, 1954).
CMA, "French Drawings from the Collection, Gallery XVI" (Apr. 30-June 16, 1954).
CMA, "Recent Accessions Tea" (Apr. 4, 1954). --- PROVENANCE --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1953.574/1953.574_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1953.574/1953.574_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1953.574/1953.574_full.tif