Suzanne: of Love and Art

Suzanne: of Love and Art

In Bohemian Paris of the 1800's comes the novelized biography of Suzanne Valadon, a tempestuous, beautiful French artist who was the model and mistress of the artists, Renoir and Lautrec. Lautrec discovered her artistic talent and sent her to Degas who became her mentor. She gave birth to an illegitimate son, Maurice Utrillo whom she literally forced to paint to quell his alcoholism, making him an important artist. Suzanne scandalized Paris by her amorous liaison with her son's friend, twenty-one years her junior. Her determination to overcome the obstacles met by women painters foreshadowed the problems of women today. "An impressive achievement" -- Bill Henderson-Editor and Publisher "This vividly real and passionate saga of the astonishing life and achievement of the artist, Suzanne Valadon , is sorely needed..." -- Wilhelmina Holladay, Chair-National Museum of Women in the Arts Elaine Todd Koren has defied time by consistently bucking the tide. A renaissance woman who modeled, acted and studied art with Moses Soyer, she is both an accomplished painter and a writer. A divorced single mother of two, she worked in the New York inner city school system both as a teacher and guidance counselor, and at night she wrote. Her mystical short stories of the children she met, won first prize in both the Educational Press and International Labor Press Association awards. Her guidance book for the elementary school teacher (Prentice-Hall) was well reviewed and widely used in the colleges. She left the educational field to write full time, published articles and then worked on SUZANNE, a biographical novel, the life of the painter, Suzanne Valadon. Koren presently resides in New York City with her husband where she is working on a memoir. Used Book in Good Condition