Suzanne Valadon · 1911
The Joy of Living
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Five nude figures resting in a forest clearing — Valadon's response to Matisse's Joy of Life. Centre Pompidou.
Up to 16 × 10 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 Joy of Living
Painted in 1911, Suzanne Valadon's The Joy of Living is her direct answer to Matisse's celebrated Joie de vivre of 1906. Five nude figures rest and converse in a wooded clearing; Valadon's nudes have weight and solidity her male contemporaries' bodies never quite have. The Centre Pompidou's painting is one of the major works that established Valadon as the first woman elected to the Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts and the first major female nude-painter of the Montmartre avant-garde.
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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