(ZOOM) Suzanne Valadon and the Parisian Demi-Monde
<!--td {border: 1px solid #cccccc;}br {mso-data-placement:same-cell;}--> Suzanne Valadon was the illegitimate daughter of a maid whose formal education ended at age eleven. She worked as a circus acrobat and artists’ model and gleaned what she could about painting by watching and…
Suzanne Valadon spent her early years modeling for Toulouse-Lautrec and Degas, absorbing everything she could while they painted her, then quietly became a significant artist in her own right. She had no formal training past age eleven, which makes her body of work, focused on women and anything but timid, all the more striking. This free Zoom talk from the Morristown and Morris Township Library on Monday, September 28 at 7:00 p.m. is a good excuse to spend an hour learning about someone who probably should have been in your art history textbook and wasn’t. Registration gets you the link.