Gouache and pastel on cardboard. Signed and dated lower left. 103.5 x 75 cm. , the full sheet.
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- Draft for the painting “La poupée abandonnée” from 1912, today in the National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, alongside other female artists such as Frida Kahlo, Gabriele Münter, and Meret Oppenheim. - Valadon is one of the most fascinating and progressive artists and personalities in Parisian modernism, along with Gauguin, Degas, and Toulouse-Lautrec. - In 2021, '22, and '23, Valadon was honored in several major solo exhibitions at, among others, the Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia, the Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek, Copenhagen, and the Centre Pompidou-Metz, as well as in numerous group exhibitions on female avant-garde artists.
LITERATURE: Paul Pétridès, L'œuvre complet de Suzanne Valadon, Paris, 1971, cat. no. D255 (illus. p. 141). - - Sotheby's, New York, Impressionist & Modern Art Day Sale, May 8, 2008, lot 156 (illustrated).