Her close friends included Van Gogh, Degas, and Renoir. As a sought-after model, Paris celebrated her - until she picked up the brush herself, at a time when art schools refused to accept female students. "I had a hard time putting the book down to go to sleep at night." Kaela Mays By the time Suzanne Valadon--a bastard from the tenements--was 15 years- old, she's been a horse walker, a milliner's assistant, a...