[From upper wrapper]: Les Peintres Français Nouveaux. No. 14, Suzanne Valadon

Signed wood-engraved port. of Valadon by G. Aubert & 28 black & white illus. (some pasted on, others plates). 63 pp. Small 4to (169 x 130 mm.), orig. printed wrappers. Paris: Editions de la Nouvelle Revue Française, 1922.<br /> <P> An uncommon luxury edition of the first publication on the artist's career, written by critic and art historian Robert Rey (1888-1964). This is one of 215 numbered copies on pur fil Lafuma, supplemented with an original wood-engraved portrait of Valadon (1865-1938) by Georges Aubert bound-in at the beginning. Valadon began as a model for Puvis de Chavannes, Renoir, Forain, Toulouse-Lautrec, etc., and became a full-time painter in 1896. She was the first woman admitted to the Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts and showed at a number of important exhibitions. A productive relationship with the avant-garde gallerist Berthe Weill led to 19 exhibitions between 1913 and 1932. Valadon was the mother of Maurice Utrillo.<br /> <P> This work contains an essay by Rey, with text illustrations of her Valadon's work, followed by contemporary reviews. Many of her earliest pictures are reproduced. There is also a list of her exhibitions<br /> <P> Fine copy.<br /> <P> ❧ Oxford Art Online (Valadon). See also Ann Sutherland Harris & Linda Nochlin, Women Artists: 1550-1950 (1976), pp. 259-61.