Femmes aux bas blancs (Woman with white stockings) 1924 Musée des Beaux Arts, Nancy The artist Suzanne Valadon was fairly well known during her day, but her life story and association with several famous painters as model or lover has taken prominence nowadays and her art is a little neglected. The Pompidou exhibition displays various aspects of her work, from portraits, still lifes and landscapes to numerous nudes. Valadon's paintings reflect the influence of Cézanne and Gauguin, but her signature firm lines show how important drawing was to her. Her pastel self portrait aged eighteen is 'fauvist' before the term was invented: Self portrait, 1883 pencil, charcoal and pastel on paper Centre Pompidou Valadon brings out bright colour contrasts in the skin tones of her nudes: Les Baigneuses (The bathers) 1923 Musée d'Arts de Nantes She used as her artist's name 'Suzanne' - the nickname given to her by Toulouse Lautrec. He jokingly referred to her as Suzanne ...