Marie-Clementine "Suzanne" Valadon, Eric Satie, Renoir, Toulouse-Lautrec and so on

c1890

Gnossienne

noun: gnossienne (naw-see-enn)

n. a moment of awareness that someone you’ve known for years still has a private and mysterious inner life, and somewhere in the hallways of their personality is a door locked from the inside, a stairway leading to a wing of the house that you’ve never fully explored—an unfinished attic that will remain maddeningly unknowable to you, because ultimately neither of you has a map, or a master key, or any way of knowing exactly where you stand.

From the Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows

Eric Satie and Marie-Clementine "Suzanne" Valadon

Painting of Eric Satie by Valadon

The ensuing affair was like no other in Valadon's experience. They sailed toy boats in the Luxembourg Gardens. Satie brought her necklaces of sausages.

from When Suzanne Valadon met Erik Satie, Sorel and Sorel, The Independent, 21 October 1995

Portrait of Suzanne Valadon (detail) by Renoir, 1885

Dance at Bougival by Renoir, 1883. Valadon, model.

Paintings by Valadon

The Blue Room, Valadon, 1923

Girl Braiding Her Hair, Valadon

Nude with a Striped Blanket, Valadon

Adam and Eve, Valadon, 1909

The Hangover (The Drinker), Toulouse-Lautrec, 1887-88. Valadon, model