La poupée délaissée (Die verlassene Puppe). 1921.
Gouache and pastel on cardboard.
Signed and dated lower left. 103.5 x 75 cm (40.7 x 29.5 in), the full sheet.
[KT].

• Draft for the painting “La poupée abandonnée” from 1912, today in the National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, alongside other female artists such as Frida Kahlo, Gabriele Münter, and Meret Oppenheim.
• Valadon is one of the most fascinating and progressive artists and personalities in Parisian modernism, along with Gauguin, Degas, and Toulouse-Lautrec.
• In 2021, '22, and '23, Valadon was honored in several major solo exhibitions at, among others, the Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia, the Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek, Copenhagen, and the Centre Pompidou-Metz, as well as in numerous group exhibitions on female avant-garde artists.

PROVENANCE: Mme Moreau-Buzelin Collection, Paris (until at least 1960).
Private collection (acquired around 1970).
From a Swiss collection.

EXHIBITION: Maurice Utrillo V., Suzanne Valadon, Haus der Kunst, Munich, June 15 - September 11, 1960, no. 224, p. 35 (not illustrated).
Gauguin and the Decorative Style, The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, 1966.
Fixed Stars – 100 Jahre Kunst auf Papier. Adolph Menzelbis Kiki Smith, Schleswig Holsteinische Landesmuseen, Schloss Gottorf, May 31 – Sept. 20, 2009, (full-page illu. on p. 29).
PAINTING still ALIVE. On the way to modernity, Center of Contemporary Art Znaki Czasu, Torun/Poland, November 11, 2028-January 13, 2019 (full-page color illu. on p. 111).

LITERATURE: Paul Pétridès, L'œuvre complet de Suzanne Valadon, Paris, 1971, cat. no. D255 (illus. p. 141).
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Sotheby's, New York, Impressionist & Modern Art Day Sale, May 8, 2008, lot 156 (illustrated).