As Suzanne Valadon has a new exhibition in #Paris 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 #artists & was all too aware of the dynamic between #painter & subject... all of which can be inferred from the work itself... such a great painting.

#arthistory