Suzanne Valadon

Portrait of Maurice Utrillo

Maker

Suzanne Valadon (French, 1865-1938)

Title

Portrait of Maurice Utrillo

Year

1928

Medium

Materials/Techniques

Techniques

Materials

lithograph

Supports

Dimensions

22.2 x 17.6 cm (8 3/4 x 6 15/16 inches) (plate)

Signature / Inscription / Marks

In Plate--Signed and dated, LL:Suzanne Valadon/1928

Marks: RISD Museum stamp in black ink on verso

Credit / Object Number

Credit

Museum Works of Art Fund

Object Number

58.027

Type

Exhibition History

Facing Artists
Twentieth Century Portraits from the Collection
Feb 27, 2009 – Jul 31, 2009

Label copy

Suzanne Valadon worked as a model in Paris beginning in the 1870s. Among the artists she posed for, Pierre-Auguste Renoir encouraged her to paint and Edgar

Degas taught her how to make prints, of which she produced just over thirty. The sitter for this portrait, Maurice Utrillo (French, 1883-1955), was Valadon’s son.

Although Utrillo led a difficult life fraught with addiction and social awkwardness, he achieved notable fame as a painter himself. Valadon presented Utrillo in isolation,

with her characteristic heavy contour lines and in the profile view favored by other artists of the period (see the portrait by Redon, at right).

19th-20th Century Portraits from the Museum's Collection
Feb 01, 1962 – Mar 01, 1962

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Tombstone

Suzanne Valadon (French, 1865-1938)
Portrait of Maurice Utrillo, 1928
Color lithograph
22.2 x 17.6 cm (8 3/4 x 6 15/16 inches) (plate)
Museum Works of Art Fund 58.027

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