id:			132096
accession number:	1954.658
share license status:	CC0
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/1954.658
updated:		2024-03-26 01:58:33.722000

Seated Female Nude, first third 1900s. Suzanne Valadon (French, 1865–1938). Black crayon; sheet: 17.2 x 16.5 cm (6 3/4 x 6 1/2 in.); secondary support: 18 x 17.3 cm (7 1/16 x 6 13/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of William Mathewson Milliken, in memory of H. Oothout Milliken 1954.658

title:				Seated Female Nude
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creation date:			first third 1900s
creation date earliest:		1867
creation date latest:		1938
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creditline:			Gift of William Mathewson Milliken, in memory of H. Oothout Milliken
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culture:	France, 20th century
technique:	black crayon
department:	Drawings
collection:	DR - French
type:		Drawing
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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.
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measurements: Sheet: 17.2 x 16.5 cm (6 3/4 x 6 1/2 in.); Secondary Support: 18 x 17.3 cm (7 1/16 x 6 13/16 in.)
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	description:	yellow-beige(2) tracing paper laid down on beige(1) modern laid paper
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	inscription:	signed, lower left, in graphite: S Valadon ; VERSO OF SECONDARY SUPPORT, upper right, in graphite: A
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

* {'description': 'CMA, "installed, Gallery IX" (June 15, 1956).', 'opening_date': '1956-06-15T00:00:00'}

* {'description': 'CMA, "French Prints and Drawings, Gallery XVI" (Feb. 29-Apr. 27, 1956).', 'opening_date': '1956-02-29T00:00:00'}

* {'description': 'CMA, "French Drawings, Gallery XVI" (Mar. 2-June 15, 1955).', 'opening_date': '1955-03-02T00:00:00'}

* {'description': 'CMA, "Preview of Outstanding Recent Accessions, Gallery XII" (Apr. 3, 1955).', 'opening_date': '1955-04-03T00:00:00'}

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PROVENANCE

	(De Hauke & Co., Inc., New York, sold to William Mathewson Milliken, Cleveland, OH)
	date: ?-1929
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	William Mathewson Milliken, Cleveland, OH, given to the Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
	date: 1929-1954
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	Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
	date: 1954-
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