Suzanne Valadon is a mute face with a direct look, a certain alloy between femininity and virility. A grace from the dawn of time and the orantes of the Renaissance of which she has the wise gesture. And an underground force, a disarming assurance like when a child confronts an adult. For the first time in France in sixty years, a museum is devoting a monographic exhibition to this "model, painter and rebel" woman, as defined by the Barnes Foundation in Philadelphia in 2021, then the Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek in Copenhagen in 2022. And it is a paradox of this museum tribute so brilliant to Suzanne Valadon (1865-1938) to make her, in the end, as enigmatic as the sphinx. Even if she offered herself, naked, to the great painters of her time - Puvis de Chavannes, Renoir, Toulouse-Lautrec ... - she remains a secret.
With Suzanne Valadon, the Centre Pompidou-Metz literally swirls with life. The time machine is running that takes you to this Paris where the...
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