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Renoir's dancer : the secret life of Suzanne Valadon /

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York : St. Martin's Press, 2018Copyright date: �2017Edition: First U.S. editionDescription: viii, 470 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cmISBN:
  • 9781250157652
  • 125015765X
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 759.4 B 23
LOC classification:
  • ND553.V3 H49 2018
Contents:
Life-cycles -- Places to call home -- Testing the line -- Inspiring painters -- Dancing in the city -- Not just a pretty face -- Talent laid bare -- Flavours of happiness -- Picture perfect -- Deviants or delinquents -- The name of the father -- New horizons -- Till death do us part -- What money can buy -- In and out -- Behind closed doors -- Empty chairs and empty tables -- Flickering shades.
Summary: A richly told biography of Suzanne Valadon, the illegitimate daughter of a provincial linen maid who became famous as a model for the Impressionists and later as a painter in her own right. Catherine Hewitt tells the remarkable tale of an ambitious, headstrong woman fighting to find a professional voice in a male-dominated world.
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Item type Home library Collection Call number Status Barcode
BIOG BIOG Chamberlin Free Public Library Biography B VAL (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 34480000559710

Includes bibliographical references (pages 395-412) and index.

Life-cycles -- Places to call home -- Testing the line -- Inspiring painters -- Dancing in the city -- Not just a pretty face -- Talent laid bare -- Flavours of happiness -- Picture perfect -- Deviants or delinquents -- The name of the father -- New horizons -- Till death do us part -- What money can buy -- In and out -- Behind closed doors -- Empty chairs and empty tables -- Flickering shades.

A richly told biography of Suzanne Valadon, the illegitimate daughter of a provincial linen maid who became famous as a model for the Impressionists and later as a painter in her own right. Catherine Hewitt tells the remarkable tale of an ambitious, headstrong woman fighting to find a professional voice in a male-dominated world.

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