Suzanne Valadon (1865-1938) 18 original plates by Suzanne Valadon engraved from 1895 to 1910. Paris, Daragnès, 1932. One album large fol. [465 x 570] containing 18 plates preceded by a title with an engraving (Catherine au tub, 2nd state with engraved signature, printed in sanguine), a preface and a catalogue essay by Claude Roger-Marx. Very fine and fresh proofs on white vellum [370 x 470], signed in pencil, pasted with pastilles at the upper corners under the edition's mat. Scattered foxing to the edges of the text leaves and rare foxing to the edges of the plates. Numbered copy signed by the artist, from an edition of 75 copies. Brick hardback portfolio with flaps, with label glued to the upper cover. "This album, which for the first time brings together almost the entirety of Suzanne Valadon's engraved work - a work long kept secret and only glimpsed until now - brings to light the singular merits and incomparable power of one of the few women painters who knew how to master hard metal. In the eighteenth century, beautiful hands contributed to the illustration of the book; in the nineteenth, Mary Cassatt and Berthe Morisot played delicate games with copper, one with brilliance, the other with the most aristocratic fever. Too refined, too civilised, none of them, however, dared to use the pencil or the point as an offensive weapon, to go to war in the way of the males... "(C. Roger-Marx, preface to the album). The author lists a total of 26 plates engraved by the artist, 18 of which appear in this album. Details of the plates: 1 - Catherine au tub. 1895. Soft varnish. Proof of the 1st state (of 2), before the engraved signature. 2 - Catherine squatting. 1894 or 1895. Soft varnish. 3 - Louise nude on the sofa. 1895. Soft varnish. 4 - Nude Catherine doing her hair. 1895. Soft varnish. 5 - Women Wiping themselves. 1895. Soft varnish. 6 - Catherine preparing the tub and Louise doing her hair naked. 1895. Soft varnish and drypoint. 7 - Women and Child by the Water. 1904. Etching. 8 - Nude Women under Trees. 1904. Soft varnish. 9 - Adèle preparing the tub and Ketty with her arms raised. 1905. Etching. 10 - Christiane. 1905. Drypoint and etching. 11 - Catherine sponging herself. 1908. Soft varnish and drypoint. 12 - Grandmother and Child. 1908. Soft varnish. 13 - Mary with a sponging tub. 1908. Drypoint. 14 - Girl with Large Breasts and Old Woman. 1908. Drypoint. 15 - Grandmother and Child. 1908. Drypoint. 16 - Catherine and a Naked Boy. 1910. Drypoint. 17 - Grandmother and Nude Louise Sitting on the Ground. 1908. Drypoint. 18 - Children Washing in the Garden. 1910. Drypoint.