The Centre Pompidou-Metz dedicates a wonderful exhibition to Suzanne Valadon. The Auvergnate began by posing for Toulouse-Lautrec or Renoir before asserting himself as a great painter without ever locking himself in a frame.
For the first time in France in sixty years, a museum is devoting a monographic exhibition to this "model, painter and rebel" woman. "Painters choose them, and rarely the other way around," says novelist Jean-Paul Delfino. "I drew madly so that, when I ran out of eyes, I have (sic) at my fingertips"