Suzanne Valadon · 1923
The Blue Room
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Valadon's defiant nude — a woman in striped pajamas reclining with a cigarette and a stack of books, painted by France's first major woman artist member of the Société Nationale. Centre Pompidou.
Up to 24 × 18 in · landscape
Size
Larger sizes are unavailable for this painting because the source scan's resolution wouldn't print at gallery quality.
Format & finish
Archival cotton canvas stretched over a wooden frame. Ready to hang as-is. No external frame.
Scale next to a 5'10" person
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The story of The Blue Room
The Blue Room is a 1923 painting by French artist Suzanne Valadon. One of her most recognizable works, it has been called a radical subversion of representation of women in art. Like many of Valadon's later works, it uses strong colors and emphasizes decorative backgrounds and patterned materials. Valadon depicts a modern 20th-century woman, clothed and smoking a cigarette, in a pose traditional to female nudes, particularly 19th-century images of odalisques and prostitutes, such as Edouard Manet's Olympia.
Adapted from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Suzanne Valadon
Marie-Clémentine "Suzanne" Valadon was a French painter who was born at Bessines-sur-Gartempe, Haute-Vienne, France. In 1894, Valadon became the first woman painter admitted to the Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts. She was also the mother of painter Maurice Utrillo.
All Suzanne Valadon prints →Biography adapted from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
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