Born in 1867, she was neglected by an alcoholic mother, and before she was ten she wandered the streets of Montmartre, skipped school, and took pride in a prodigious filth.  
Born in 1867, she was neglected by an alcoholic mother, and before she was ten she wandered the streets of Montmartre, skipped school, and took pride in a prodigious filth.  "Washing is for pigs," she said.  "I am a monkey, I am a cat."  Various friend or lover to several French painters, her tiny size made Toulouse-Lautrec feel tall beside her, so he introduced her to Degas, who encouraged her.  Although she had no formal training, her work showed a fresh, personal vision-particularly in the fiercely objective nudes and self-portraits that reveal her formidable character.  For 10 points, who was this artist of The Blue Room and Nude on a Striped Bedspread, who was also the mother of the artist Maurice Utrillo?
Born in 1867, she was neglected by an alcoholic mother, and before she was ten she wandered the streets of Montmartre, skipped school, and took pride in a prodigious filth.  
Suzanne Valadon