A new portrait of Suzanne Valadon, painted from the inside
For this year's rentrée littéraire, Agnès Clancier retraces the life of Montmartre model turned painter Suzanne Valadon, according to a review in En attendant Nadeau.
Among the rentrée littéraire 2026 titles reviewed by En attendant Nadeau is "Suzanne Valadon l'insoumise," a book by Agnès Clancier devoted to the painter who began her career as a model on Montmartre's Butte before turning to canvas herself.
According to the review, Clancier traces how a woman long confined to the position of object in other painters' work eventually imposed her own vision of the world. The article describes Valadon's painting as no longer offering a body to the male gaze but rendering a body inhabited from within.
The review gives no further detail on the book's structure, length or publisher. En attendant Nadeau presents it as part of its ongoing coverage of this year's rentrée littéraire.
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