1913, Suzanne Valadon, Family Portrait -- Museu Nacional d’Art de Catalunya (Barcelona) (special exhibition)
From the exhibition label: This self-portrait of the artist as a family evokes compositional models of the Renaissance. Valadon occupies the centre of the work as the matriarch of the family, the only one of the sitters who faces the viewer with her hand on her chest, a gesture of dignity. The others, an elderly mother, her young partner and her son Maurice, who underwent episodes of alcoholism and depression, is depicted with his body turned to one side, evoking the iconography of Dürer's Melencolia.
1913, Suzanne Valadon, Family Portrait -- Museu Nacional d’Art de Catalunya (Barcelona) (special exhibition)
From the exhibition label: This self-portrait of the artist as a family evokes compositional models of the Renaissance. Valadon occupies the centre of the work as the matriarch of the family, the only one of the sitters who faces the viewer with her hand on her chest, a gesture of dignity. The others, an elderly mother, her young partner and her son Maurice, who underwent episodes of alcoholism and depression, is depicted with his body turned to one side, evoking the iconography of Dürer's Melencolia.