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The 20th Century (EUROPE)

By L_Hernandez

  • Suzanne Valadon

    Suzanne Valadon original name Marie-clementine Valadon was born on September 23, 1865 in sur’Gartempe, near Limoges, France. She died on April 19, 1938 in Paris. She was a French painter noted for her robust figures and bold use of color. She was the mother of the painter Maurice Utrillo.

  • Marie Laurencin

    Marie Laurencin
    Marie Laurencin was born on October 31, 1883 in Paris and died on June 8, 1956 in Paris. She was a French painter, printmaker, and stage designer known for her delicate portraits of elegant, vaguely melancholic women. From 1903 to 1904 Laurencin studied art at the Humbert Academy in Paris. Among her fellow students was Georges Braque, who, with Pablo Picasso, soon developed the style of painting known as Cubism.