Editing Suzanne Valadon (section)

== Feminist commentary ==
As one of the best documented French artists of the early twentieth century, Valadon's body of work has been of great interest to feminist art historians,<ref name="The Closet Feminist 2013">{{cite web |title=Inspired by Art Herstory: Suzanne Valadon's "The Blue Room" (1923) |website=The Closet Feminist |date=2013-09-11 |url=http://www.theclosetfeminist.ca/inspired-by-art-herstory-suzanne-valadons-the-blue-room-1923/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190404015636/http://www.theclosetfeminist.ca/inspired-by-art-herstory-suzanne-valadons-the-blue-room-1923/ |archive-date=2019-04-04 |url-status=dead |access-date=2021-11-16}}</ref>{{better source needed|reason=appears to be a blog site|date=November 2021}} especially given her focus on the female form. Her work was candid and occasionally awkward, often characterized by strong lines, and her resistance to both academic and avant-garde conventions for representing the female nude have encouraged interest in her work: It has been argued<!-- by whom? --> that many of her images of women signal a form of resistance to some of the dominant representations of female sexuality in early twentieth-century Western art. Many of her nudes painted from the 1910s onward are heavily proportioned and sometimes awkwardly posed. The feminist critics assert that they are conspicuously at odds with the svelte, 'feminine' type to be found in the imagery of both popular and 'high' art.{{sfn |Gaze |1997 |p=1386}} <!-- similar to Renoir, Picasso, and Moore perhaps? --> Her self-portrait from 1931, when she was 66, stands out as one of the early examples of a woman painter recording her own physical decline.<ref name="Bonazzoli Robecchi 2020 pp. 84-87">{{cite book |last1=Bonazzoli |first1=Francesca |last2=Robecchi |first2=Michele |title=Portraits unmasked : the stories behind the faces |publisher=Prestel |publication-place=Munich; New York |year=2020 |isbn=978-3-7913-8620-1 |oclc=1184016102 |pages=84–87}}</ref><!-- who would say that about all of the male artists who did just that in self portraits -->

Like many other talented female artists, although she is known to have been an important modern artist, Valadon never had been given a solo exhibition by a U.S. art institution. Her first institutional solo exhibition in the U.S., at the Barnes Foundation in Philadelphia, was scheduled to open in September 2021.<ref name="auto"/>