The first time I heard a piece of music by Erik Satie it was on the B-side of a Gary Numan single. Played on a synth that sounds like a theremin sucking on a dummy, ‘Gymnopédie ...

Several are women: Weill actively supported female artists, including Suzanne Valadon, whose work was championed by Degas and Renoir, for whom she had modelled, and the mercurial Émilie Charmy ...

Often regarded as a muse to Picasso’s genius, Maar modelled for many of the artist’s anguished “weeping women” portraits, painted while he created his anti-fascist masterpiece, Guernica.

This Amateur Art Detective Thinks Paul Gauguin’s Last Self-Portrait Is a Fake The new allegations come from Fabrice Fourmanoir, who previously identified a fraudulent Gauguin sculpture that the ...

Gauguin’s final “self-portrait” is a fake, according to Fabrice Fourmanoir, a French researcher who lived for many years in French Polynesia.

This was a few days after I had seen the excellent “Suzanne Valadon” and the”Paris Noir” exhibitions at the Centre Pompidou and a day after the Prinzhorn Collection’s temporary exhibit ...

After a long and tumultuous relationship, Valadon married Paul Mousis, a well-to-do lawyer with many Montmartre connections. It was not to last, and when she was 44, Maurice introduced her to his ...

One of the most sad and damaging self-portraits ever is Vincent van Gogh’s ‘Self-Portrait with Bandaged Ear’. It was painted after he cut off a part of his own ear following a fight with ...

At the Centre Pompidou, Suzanne Valadon finds her rightful place in the art of her time After Metz, the Paris museum hosts an exhibition devoted to this figurative painter, with a different ...

The Centre Pompidou in Paris will be opening a new exhibition on 15th January dedicated to Suzanne Valadon (1865-1938). According to their website: Suzanne Valadon had not been the subject of a ...