Artist

Suzanne Valadon

1865–1938 · born in Bessines-sur-Gartempe · died in 16th arrondissement of Paris

Suzanne Valadon was born in a small town in France and moved to Paris as a girl. She worked as a circus performer and an artist's model for Renoir and Toulouse-Lautrec before teaching herself to paint. She became the first woman admitted to the French National Society of Fine Arts. She lived in Montmartre and died in Paris in 1938.