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==Biography==
[[File:Maurice Utrillo, par Suzanne Valadon.jpg|thumb|left|[[Suzanne Valadon]], ''Portrait of Maurice Utrillo,'' 1921]]
Utrillo was the son of the artist [[Suzanne Valadon]] (born Marie-Clémentine Valadon), who was then an eighteen-year-old artist's model. She never revealed who was the father of her child; speculation exists that he was the offspring from a liaison with an equally young amateur painter named Boissy, or with the well-established painter [[Pierre Puvis de Chavannes|Pierre-Cécile Puvis de Chavannes]], or even with [[Pierre-Auguste Renoir|Renoir]].<ref name="The New Yorker - 7 February 2012 - Renoir at The Frick: Go See Dance at Bougival">{{cite news|url=http://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/renoir-at-the-frick-go-see-dance-at-bougival|title=Renoir at The Frick: Go See "Dance at Bougival"|last=Peter Schjeldahl|author-link=Peter Schjeldahl|date=7 February 2012|work=[[The New Yorker]]|access-date=13 September 2014}}</ref> (see below under ''Utrillo's Paternity''). In 1891 a Spanish artist, Miguel Utrillo y Molins (Miquel Utrillo i Morlius), signed a legal document acknowledging paternity, although the question remains as to whether he was in fact the child's father.<ref>Warnod 1981, p.48.</ref>
Valadon, who became a model after a fall from a [[trapeze]] ended her chosen career as a circus [[acrobatics|acrobat]],<ref>Warnod 1981, p.13.</ref> found that posing for [[Berthe Morisot]], Renoir, [[Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec]], and others provided her with an opportunity to study their techniques. She taught herself to paint, and when Toulouse-Lautrec introduced her to [[Edgar Degas]], he became her mentor. Eventually, she became a peer of the artists she had posed for.
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