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Emeritus Prof Christopher May

As Suzanne Valadon has a new exhibition in at Pompidoe-Metz, this gives me a chance to post her wonderful (implied) critique of the reclining nude.

Valadon's Venus looks like she's had a long day, is enjoying a cigarette and is not going to get her kit off for you, sunshine.

Valadon had modelled for & was all too aware of the dynamic between & subject... all of which can be inferred from the work itself... such a great painting.