A World of one’s Own
From 27 October 2023, to 11 February 2024
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The Musée d’Arts de Nantes presents a retrospective devoted to Suzanne Valadon (1865-1938), from 27 October 2023, to 11 February 2024.
Initiated by the Centre Pompidou-Metz then re-adapted by the Musée d’Arts, the exhibition aims to bring this artist the recognition bestowed on her by her peers during her lifetime.
With around 120 paintings and works on paper, the Nantes exhibition above all retraces Suzanne Valadon’s extraordinary career as painter, illustrator and graver, and iconic figure in Montmartre bohemian circles.
Curator of the exhibition:
Chiara Parisi, Director of the Centre Pompidou-Metz.
Chief curator of the exhibition in Nantes:
Claire Lebossé, Curator responsible for the modern art collections at the Musée d’Arts de Nantes.
Sophie Lévy, Head Curator at the Musée d’Arts de Nantes.
Salomé Van Eynde, Exhibition Manager at the Musée d’Arts de Nantes.
This exhibition was designed and presented by the Centre Pompidou-Metz from 15 April to 11 September 2023, then taken and adapted by the Musée d’arts de Nantes and presented from 27 October 2023 to 11 February 2024.
It will then be on show at the Museu Nacional d‘Art de Catalunya in Barcelona from 19 April to 1 September 2024.
The Musée d’arts de Nantes thanks its sponsors, the Lamotte Group, LNA Santé and SNCF Réseaux for their generous financial supports for the exhibition, as well as the Fonds Métropolitain pour la Culture.
The museum thanks the French government - Ministry for Culture - DRAC of the Pays de la Loire region for the subsidy granted for the exhibition.
The museum warmly thanks its media partners, who through their support play an active role in the general’s public’s discovery of the exhibition and help boost visitor numbers.
Credits:
- Suzanne Valadon, Portrait de Madame Mauricia Coquiot, 1915. Huile sur toile, 93 x 73 cm. Paris, Centre Pompidou, Musée national d’art moderne - Centre de création industrielle, en dépôt au Musée des beaux-arts de Menton. Photo : © Centre Pompidou, MNAM-CCI, Dist. RMN-Grand Palais / Philippe Migeat.
- Suzanne Valadon, La Chambre bleue, 1923. Huile sur toile, 90 x 116 cm. Paris, Centre Pompidou, Musée national d’art moderne - Centre de création industrielle, en dépôt au Musée des beaux-arts de Limoges. Photo : © Centre Pompidou, MNAM-CCI, Dist. RMN-Grand Palais / Jacqueline Hyde.
- Suzanne Valadon, Le Lancement de filet, 1914. Huile sur toile, 201 x 301 cm. Paris, Centre Pompidou. Musée national d’art moderne - Centre de création industrielle, en dépôt au Musée des beaux-arts de Nancy. Photo : © Centre Pompidou, MNAM-CCI, Dist. RMN-Grand Palais / Jaqueline Hyde.
- Suzanne Valadon, Les Baigneuses, 1923. Huile sur toile, 116,4 x 89 cm. Don de la Société des Amis du musée, 1957. Nantes, Musée d’arts. Photo : © RMNGrand Palais / Gérard Blot.
