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| The Blue Room | |
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| Artist | Suzanne Valadon |
| Year | 1923 |
| Medium | oil on canvas |
| Dimensions | 90 cm × 116 cm (35 in × 46 in) |
| Location | Musée National d'Art Moderne, Paris |
The Blue Room (La chambre bleue) is a 1923 painting by French artist Suzanne Valadon. One of her most recognizable works, it has been called a radical subversion of representation of women in art.[1] Like many of Valadon's later works, it uses strong colors and emphasizes decorative backgrounds and patterned materials.[2] Valadon depicts a modern 20th-century woman, clothed and smoking a cigarette, in a pose traditional to female nudes, particularly 19th-century images of odalisques and prostitutes, such as Edouard Manet's Olympia.[3]
The painting is in the Musée National d'Art Moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris.
- ^ Alsdorf, Bridget. "Suzanne Valadon". London Review of Books. Retrieved March 24, 2022.
- ^ "Suzanne Valadon". Museum of Modern Art. Retrieved March 7, 2013.
- ^ Sturgis, Alexander (2006-01-01). Rebels and Martyrs: The Image of the Artist in the Nineteenth Century. Yale University Press. p. 8. ISBN 978-1-85709-346-9.