Exposition Décennale see Exposition Universelle (1900)
Exposition Universelle (1867)
Exposition Universelle (1878)
Exposition Universelle (1889)
Exposition Universelle (1900)
F
Forain, Jean-Louis
Franco-Prussian War
G
Galerie Bernheim-Jeune
Gauguin, Paul
Gauzi, François
Gay, César ‘Père’
Gazi Igna Ghirei
Gill, André
Guimbaud inn
Guimbaud, Widow
H
Helleu, Paul
Henner, Jean-Jacques
Herriot, Édouard
Heuzé, Edmond
Hydropathes
Hynais, Vojtĕch
I
Impressionists, the
Institution Molin
International Society of Sculptors, Painters and Gravers (ISSPG)
J
jazz
Jourdain, Francis
K
Kars, Georges
Kars, Nora
L
‘La Doulce France’
Lapin Agile
Laurencin, Marie
Le Barc de Boutteville
le Cugy, Catherine see Guimbaud, Widow
Le Mas Barbu
le Masle, Robert
Le Vésinet
Les Gueles Sèches
Libaude, Louis
Limousin
M
Manet, Édouard
Marinetti, Filippo Tommaso
Futurist Manifesto
Merlet, Georges
Merlet, Marie-Lucienne see Coca, Marie
Métro
Metthey, Jean
Modigliani, Amedeo ‘Modi’
Molier, Ernest
Molier’s circus
Monet, Claude
Montmagny
Montmartre
café scene
Montparnasse
Morisot, Berthe
Moulin de la Galette
Mousis, Paul
N
Naly, Robert
Nadaud, Martin
Noyelle, Pierre
O
Oradour-sur-Glane
P
Paris
art scene
siege of
patois
Pauwels, Lucie see Utrillo, Lucie
Pauwels, Robert
Pétridès, Paul
Picasso, Pablo
works
At the Lapin Agile
Pierrefitte
Puvis de Chavannes, Pierre
works
The Sacred Grove of the Arts and Muses
R
railway
Renoir, Pierre-Auguste
works
Dance at Bougival
Dance in the City
Dance in the Country
The Large Bathers
The Plait
Rochefoucauld, Comte Hubert de la
Rue Cortot
Rue Tourlaque
Rusiñol, Santiago
works
Una Romanza
S
Saint-Bernard
Saint Vincent de Paul, sisters of
Salis, Rodolphe
Salon d’Automne
Salon de la Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts
Salon des Artistes Indépendants
Salon, the
Satie, Conrad
Satie, Erik
Uspud
Seurat, Georges
Société des Femmes Artistes Modernes
Somme, the
suicide
T
Tabarant, Adolphe
Tanguy, Julien ‘Père’
Toulouse-Lautrec, Henri de
works
Poudre de Riz
The Hangover
U
Ursulines
Ushant
Utrillo, Lucie (formerly Pauwels)
Utrillo, Maurice
alcoholism
baptism
Croix de la Légion d’Honneur
exhibitions
and Gabby
Joan of Arc obsession
mental health
painting
paternity
and Paulette
relationship with Lucie
Utrillo, Miguel
Utter, André
Utter, Germaine
V
Valadon, Clément
Valadon, Madeleine
Valadon, Marie-Clémentine see Valadon, Suzanne
Valadon, Mathieu-Alexandre
Valadon, Suzanne
artist’s model
childhood
critical success
discovered drawing
education
exhibitions
exhibition with Maurice
first painted
ill health
international profile
landscapes
legacy
name change
pregnancy
relationship with Degas
relationship with Maurice
relationship with Miguel Utrillo
relationship with Mousis
relationship with Lautrec
relationship with Lucie
relationship with Puvis
relationship with Renoir
relationship with Utter
retrospective
self-portrait
sexual reputation/gossip
style
working in oils
works
Adam and Eve
Apples and Pears
Family Portrait
Grandmother and Grandson
Grandmother and Little Rosalie
Joy of Life
Maternity
Maurice Utrillo, his Grandmother and his Dog
Nude Girl Sitting
Portrait of a Young Girl
Portrait of the Utter Family
The Abandoned Doll
The Blue Room
The Casting of the Nets
The Dressmaker
The Future Unveiled
The Grandson’s Toilette
Young Girl Crocheting
Valore, Lucie see Utrillo, Lucie
Van Gogh, Vincent
Vauxcelles, Louis
Verdun
Vizier, Marie
W
Weill, Berthe
Wertheimer, Gustav
women in 19th century
women’s art
World War One
Z
Zandomeneghi, Federico (Zando)
works
At the Café de la Nouvelle Athènes
Zborowski, Leopold (Zbo)
Photographs
Photograph © 2017 Museum of Fine Arts Boston
Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Dance at Bougival, 1883, oil on canvas, 181.9 × 98.1cm, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Picture Fund, 37.375.
Photo © RMN-Grand Palais (Musée d’Orsay)/Hervé Lewandowski
Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Dance in the City, 1883, oil on canvas, 180 × 90cm, Musée d’Orsay, Paris.
Photo © RMN-Grand Palais (Musée d’Orsay)/Hervé Lewandowski
Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Dance in the Country, 1883, oil on canvas, 180 × 90 cm, Musée d’Orsay, Paris.
Photo © Centre Pompidou, MNAM-CCI, Dist. RMN-Grand Palais/Jaqueline Hyde
Suzanne Valadon, Self Portrait, 1883, pastel on paper, 43.5 × 30.5cm, Musée national d’art moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris.
Photo © Centre Pompidou, MNAM-CCI, Dist. RMN-Grand Palais/Philippe Migeat
Suzanne Valadon, The Grandmother, 1883, red chalk, white chalk and pencil on paper, 35.2 × 29.5cm, Musée national d’art moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris.
Leemage/Corbis Historical/Getty Images
Marcelin Gilbert Desboutin, Portrait of Pierre Puvis de Chavannes, 1895, oil on canvas, 120 × 80cm, Musée de Picardie, Amiens, F
rance.
Image © Lyon MBA – Photo G. Dufrene
Pierre C. Puvis de Chavannes, The Sacred Grove of the Arts and Muses, 1884, oil on canvas, 460 × 1040cm, Musée des Beaux-Arts de Lyon.
Photo © The Philadelphia Museum of Art, Dist. RMN-Grand Palais/image Philadelphia Museum of Art
Pierre-Auguste Renoir, The Large Bathers, 1884–1887, oil on canvas, 117.8 × 170.8cm, Philadelphia Museum of Art.
Stiftung Langmatt Sidney und Jenny Brown, Baden, Switzerland
Pierre-Auguste Renoir, La Natte (The Plait), 1886–1887, oil on canvas, 57 × 47cm, Museum Langmatt.
© Museu Nacional d’Art de Catalunya, Barcelona (2017) Photo: Jordi Calveras
Santiago Rusiñol, Portrait of Miguel Utrillo, 1890–1891, oil on canvas, 222.5 × 151cm, Museu Nacional d’Art de Catalunya, Barcelona.
Photo © Centre Pompidou, MNAM-CCI, Dist. RMN-Grand Palais/Philippe Migeat
Suzanne Valadon, Maurice Utrillo, 1886, red chalk on paper, 34.5 × 29cm, Musée national d’art moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris.
Photo: Imaging Department © President and Fellows of Harvard College
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, The Hangover, 1887–1889, oil on canvas, 47 × 55.3cm, Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest from the Collection of Maurice Wertheim, Class of 1906, 1951.63.
Photo © Centre Pompidou, MNAM-CCI, Dist. RMN-Grand Palais/Bertrand Prévost
Suzanne Valadon, Portrait of Erik Satie, 1892–1893, oil on canvas, 41 × 22cm, Musée national d’art moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris.
© Museu Nacional d’Art de Catalunya, Barcelona (2017) Photo: Jordi Calveras
Santiago Ruisiñol, Una Romanza, 1894, oil on canvas, 89.5 × 111cm, Collection Museu Nacional d’Art de Catalunya, Barcelona.
Photo © Centre Pompidou, MNAM-CCI, Dist. RMN-Grand Palais/Jacqueline Hyde
Suzanne Valadon, Adam and Eve, 1909, oil on canvas, 162 × 131cm, Musée national d’art moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris.
Photo © Centre Pompidou, MNAM-CCI, Dist. RMN-Grand Palais/Jacqueline Hyde
Suzanne Valadon, Maurice Utrillo, his Grandmother and his Dog, 1910, oil on cardboard, 70 × 50cm, Musée des Beaux-Arts, Limoges.
Photo © The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Dist. RMN-Grand Palais/image of the MMA
Suzanne Valadon, Joy of Life, 1911, oil on canvas, 122.9 × 205.8cm, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
Photo © Centre Pompidou, MNAM-CCI, Dist. RMN-Grand Palais/Philippe Migeat
Suzanne Valadon, Family Portrait, 1912, oil on canvas, 98 × 73.5cm, Musée national d’art moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris.
Photo © Studio Monique Bernaz, Geneva
Suzanne Valadon, The Future Unveiled, 1912, oil on canvas, 130 × 163cm, Collection: Association des Amis du Musée du Petit Palais, Geneva.
Photo © Centre Pompidou, MNAM-CCI, Dist. RMN-Grand Palais/Bertrand Prévost
Suzanne Valadon, Portrait of the Artist’s Mother, 1912, oil on board, 80 × 64cm, Musée national d’art moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris.
Image © Lyon MBA – Photo Alain Basset
Suzanne Valadon, Marie Coca and her Daughter Gilberte, 1913, oil on canvas, 162 × 129.5cm, Musée des Beaux-Arts, Lyon.
Heritage Images/Hulton Fine Art Collection/Getty Images
Suzanne Valadon, The Casting of the Nets, 1914, oil on canvas, 201 × 301cm, Musée des Beaux-Arts, Nancy.
Photo © Centre Pompidou, MNAM-CCI, Dist. RMN-Grand Palais/Rights reserved
Suzanne Valadon, The Sacré-Coeur seen from the Garden of the Rue Cortot, 1916, oil on canvas, 63 × 53cm, Musée national d’art moderne, Centre Pompidou.
Courtesy of The National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, DC, Gift of Wallace and Wilhelmina Holladay; Photo by Lee Stalsworth
Suzanne Valadon, The Abandoned Doll, 1921, oil on canvas, 130 × 81cm, The National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, DC.
© ADAGP, Paris and DACS, London 2017
Maurice Utrillo, Bessines Church in the Snow, 1927, oil on canvas, 73 × 100cm, private collection.
Photo © Centre Pompidou, MNAM-CCI, Dist. RMN-Grand Palais/Rights reserved
Suzanne Valadon, Bouquet of Flowers, 1930, oil on canvas, 73 × 54.3cm, Musée des Beaux-Arts, Limoges.
S.D.b.g.: Suzanne Valadon/1932 © Villefranche-sur-Saône, Musée municipal Paul Dini/photo Didier Michalet
Suzanne Valadon, André Utter and his Dogs, 1932, oil on canvas, 163.5 × 131cm, Musée Municipal Paul Dini, Villefranche-sur-Saône.
Also by Catherine Hewitt
The Mistress of Paris:
The 19th-Century Courtesan Who Built an Empire on a Secret
About the Author
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Contents
Title Page
Copyright Notice
List of illustrations
Prologue
1. Life-cycles
2. Places to Call Home
3. Testing the Line
4. Inspiring Painters
5. Dancing in the City
6. Not Just a Pretty Face
7. Talent Laid Bare
8. Flavours of Happiness
9. Picture Perfect
10. Deviants or Delinquents
11. The Name of the Father
12. New Horizons
13. Till Death Do Us Part
14. What Money Can Buy
15. In and Out
16. Behind Closed Doors
17. Empty Chairs and Empty Tables
18. Flickering Shades
Epilogue
Appendix
Afterword
Acknowledgements
Selected Bibliography
Notes
Index
Photographs
Also by Catherine Hewitt
About the Author
Copyright
RENOIR’S DANCER. Copyright © 2017 by Catherine Hewitt. All rights reserved. For information, address St. Martin’s Press, 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, N.Y. 10010.
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Hewitt, Catherine, author.
Title: Renoir’s dancer : the secret life of Suzanne Valadon / Catherine Hewitt.
Description: First U.S. edition. | New York : St. Martin’s Press, 2018. | Includes bibliographical references and index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2017041095 | eISBN 978-1-250-15764-5
Subjects: LCSH: Valadon, Suzanne, 1865–1938. | Painters—France—Biography. | Women painters—France—Biography.
Classification: LCC ND553.V3 H49 2018 | DDC 759.4 [B]—dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2017041095
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