\nMISTRESS OF RENOIR AND LAUTREC.
\nMOTHER OF UTRILLO.<\/div>\n<\/div>
Suzanne<\/h1><\/div>of Love and Art<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>She was a model before she became a painter. A muse before she became a master. And she refused to live by anyone else\u2019s rules.<\/p>\n
A novel based on the extraordinary life of Suzanne Valadon by Elaine Todd Koren.<\/p>\n<\/div>
\u00a0“She seized what she wanted from art and life, and tore it free with both hands making it irrevocably her own.”
\n<\/span>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 — Germaine Greer<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>Buy from Maverick Books<\/span><\/a><\/div>Buy from Amazon<\/span><\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div>![](\"https:\/\/staging.suzannevaladon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/front-cover-suzanne-copy-scaled.jpg\" "\\"0967235529_frontcover.jpg\\"")
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<\/span><\/div><\/div><\/div>Meet Suzanne Valadon<\/p>\n<\/div>
Suzanne Valadon lived at the center of the artistic revolution that transformed Paris. Born into poverty, she became an acrobat, an artist\u2019s model, a muse\u2014and ultimately a groundbreaking painter in her own right.<\/p>\n
She moved through the world of Renoir, Toulouse-Lautrec, Degas and the artists of Montmartre, refusing the conventions that defined what a woman could be. Fiercely independent and unapologetically unconventional, Valadon turned from being the woman in the painting to the woman holding the brush.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>
From the Book<\/em><\/h2><\/div>\u201cMy name is Suzanne Valadon and I was born in 1865, the illegitimate daughter of an alcoholic charwoman, a servant, who ran off with me in shame to Paris where she stumbled into Montmartre and where I grew up in the streets.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>Read From The Book<\/span><\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>About Elaine Todd Koren<\/em><\/h2><\/div>Like the woman at the heart of her novel, Elaine Todd Koren was an artist who refused to be confined by convention. A painter, writer and former educator, she spent more than ten years researching Suzanne Valadon’s life and the extraordinary circle of artists around her in both France and the United States.<\/p>\n
Her fascination with Valadon became Suzanne of Love and Art<\/em>, a novel bringing to life the passionate, fiercely independent woman who moved from artist’s model to acclaimed painter in her own right.<\/p>\n<\/div>About The Author<\/span><\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div>![](\"https:\/\/staging.suzannevaladon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/ElaineNewBig-291x300.jpg\" "\\"ElaineNewBig\\"")
<\/span><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>Suzanne of Love and Art<\/em><\/h2><\/div>\u201cAn impressive achievement.\u201d<\/span>
\n\u2014 Bill Henderson<\/span><\/p>\nExperience the extraordinary life, loves and art of Suzanne Valadon.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>
of Love and Art<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div> She was a model before she became a painter. A muse before she became a master. And she refused to live by anyone else\u2019s rules.<\/p>\n A novel based on the extraordinary life of Suzanne Valadon by Elaine Todd Koren.<\/p>\n<\/div> \u00a0“She seized what she wanted from art and life, and tore it free with both hands making it irrevocably her own.” Meet Suzanne Valadon<\/p>\n<\/div> Suzanne Valadon lived at the center of the artistic revolution that transformed Paris. Born into poverty, she became an acrobat, an artist\u2019s model, a muse\u2014and ultimately a groundbreaking painter in her own right.<\/p>\n She moved through the world of Renoir, Toulouse-Lautrec, Degas and the artists of Montmartre, refusing the conventions that defined what a woman could be. Fiercely independent and unapologetically unconventional, Valadon turned from being the woman in the painting to the woman holding the brush.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div> \u201cMy name is Suzanne Valadon and I was born in 1865, the illegitimate daughter of an alcoholic charwoman, a servant, who ran off with me in shame to Paris where she stumbled into Montmartre and where I grew up in the streets.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div> Like the woman at the heart of her novel, Elaine Todd Koren was an artist who refused to be confined by convention. A painter, writer and former educator, she spent more than ten years researching Suzanne Valadon’s life and the extraordinary circle of artists around her in both France and the United States.<\/p>\n Her fascination with Valadon became Suzanne of Love and Art<\/em>, a novel bringing to life the passionate, fiercely independent woman who moved from artist’s model to acclaimed painter in her own right.<\/p>\n<\/div> \u201cAn impressive achievement.\u201d<\/span> Experience the extraordinary life, loves and art of Suzanne Valadon.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>
\n<\/span>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 — Germaine Greer<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div><\/span><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/span><\/div><\/div><\/div>From the Book<\/em><\/h2><\/div>
About Elaine Todd Koren<\/em><\/h2><\/div>
<\/span><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>Suzanne of Love and Art<\/em><\/h2><\/div>
\n\u2014 Bill Henderson<\/span><\/p>\n