Our next book club selection is Renoir's Dance by Catherine Hewitt. This 2018 published in 2018 this biography of Suzanne Valadon reads like a novel. Suzanne started out as a model for the impressionist painters and under the mentoring of Degas became a painter herself. She also was the mother of Montmartre painter Maurice Utrillo.
Self-portrait:
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