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In the Cards
by Don McCunn
Title
In the Cards
Artist
Don McCunn
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Photograph
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The daughter of an unmarried laundress, Suzanne Valadon was a free spirit who wore a corsage of carrots, kept a goat at her studio to "eat up her bad drawings," and fed caviar to her "good Catholic" cats on Fridays.
Working as a model for artists like Lautrec and Renoir, Valadon observed their techniques. Degas encouraged her efforts by purchasing her work and they became close friends. Best known for her candid female nudes, Valadon was such a perfectionist that she worked on some of her oil paintings for thirteen years before showing them. She became the first woman painter admitted to the Societe Nationale des Beaux-Arts.
The cards laid out in "The Future Unveiled" could well be for divination through cartomancy. The card being read is a queen of diamonds, which represents a fair-haired woman, a flirt who loves to party and gossip.
(Excerpt from the book "Revisiting the Classics.")
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April 23rd, 2013
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