New treasures to discover in this museum, one of the places where you can see the most works by Suzanne Valadon

Until September 22, the Musée des Beaux-Arts in Limoges offers its visitors to spend a summer with the painter Suzanne Valadon on the occasion of the opening of a room entirely dedicated to this artist born in Bessines-sur-Gartempe in 1865 and who, for several years, has experienced a coronation, far beyond our borders.

Hélène is a painter. Moreover, Every day. For example, she comes to the Museum of Fine new treasures discover this museum, Arts in Limoges and puts her easel in front of “Roses in a glass”, by Suzanne Valadon, to reproduce the artist’s brushstrokes. Moreover, “I like his painting. Meanwhile, There is something very frank in his colorful features. Nevertheless, I like his contrasts, his research in the light”says the painter.

Colors. a light that is obvious, as soon as one enters this new ball room, entirely devoted to the artist from Bessines, and world famous. Nine paintings are hung on the picture rails. “We wanted the largest room to be dedicated to the flagship artist of collections which is Suzanne Valadon, tells François Lafabrié, the conservative of the ball, And that was an opportunity with the return of the works of Suzanne Valadon, after four years of trips to exhibitions all over the world, to redevelop this room to devote it to this artist.“

Because Suzanne Valadon is a traveler. For four years, his paintings have been going through the world: Philadelphia, Metz, Barcelona, Nantes, Paris. The most requested is the blue room, it illustrates the posters of exhibitions devoted to new treasures discover this museum, the artist, the booklets. However, since 1999, the table is a deposit of the Pompidou museum at the ball. A painting that has become emblematic.

“Emblematic because it is extremely modern. she plays on the codes of paintingexplains the curator new treasures discover this museum, of the Museum of Fine Arts in Limoges. It is a kind of modern odalisque. it takes up these wandering Venus, Odalisques or even Olympia de Manet, These women lying on a bed, but it brings it a touch of modernity. She is a woman who smokes. who is in pants, she has books at her feet, symbol of knowledge, so we feel that Valadon imposes a very contemporary look at what surrounds her and the blue chamber translates to this modernity. “

The blue room has regained its roommates. Regulars like this painting where we see Maurice Utrillo, son of Suzanne Valadon, and the mother of the painter.

Suzanne Valadon painted her entourage, she also painted still lifes, like the one who has just joined the collections. The museum bought it in 2024 and it is exhibited for the first time. It illuminates, by its colors, and also shows a decorative fabric, as liked to do Suzanne Valadon.

The blue room is now close to a nude of women. characteristic of the drawings and painting by Suzanne Valadon, the artist very early on from this subject. The painting hung on the museum dates from 1909. “We have two women who are seized after the bath in worse poses, explains François Lafabrié, And she treats them without concession, we have really realistic bodies, and at the same time with these very frank colors, this power, this monumentality which is specific to Suzanne Valadon. He is new treasures discover this museum, someone who seizes moments of intimacy and who carries them in large dimensions in painting.“

This canvas is a loan from the Pompidou museum for five years. a face of the artist who was missing from the collection presented in Limoges. “Today it is nine works by the artist who are presented at the Museum of Fine Arts in Limoges. continues François Lafabrié, new treasures discover this museum, Which makes the museum one of the places where you can see the most works by Suzanne Valadon. “

“A summer Valadon” Hard until September 22, before the odalisque of the blue room for a new trip. She will be exhibited at the Musée de l’Orangerie in Paris. In a retrospective on the gallery owner Berthe Weill.