About This Artwork
Suzanne Valadon
French, 1865-1938
Rising in the Morning (Le Lever)1920
Pastel over charcoal, fixed, on ivory wove paper, discolored to cream
554 x 436 mm
Signed recto, lower left, in black pastel: "Suzanne Valadon/1920"
Gift of Robert Allerton, 1925.1548
Prints and Drawings
Not on Display
Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories
Exhibition History
The Art Institute of Chicago, "A Century of Progress: Exhibition of Paintings and Sculpture," June 1–November 1, 1933, p. 104, cat. 1082
Publication History
Paul Pétridès, L’oeuvre complet de Suzanne Valadon (Paris, 1971), p. 137, no. D 231 (ill.).
Harold Joachim, French Drawings and Sketchbooks of the Nineteenth Century 2 (Chicago, 1979), p. 120, no. 7B1.
Ownership History
Albert Roullier, Chicago. Given by Robert Allerton (1873–1964), Chicago, to the AIC, 1925.