Berthe Morisot (1841-1895)

Berthe Morisot (1841-1895)

June 17, 2019 September 22, 2019 Exhibition has ended
A leading Impressionist figure, Berthe Morisot remains to this day less well-known than her friends Monet, Degas and Renoir. Yet she was immediately recognised as one of the group's most innovative artists. The exhibition traces the exceptional career of a painter who, at odds with the practices on her time and her circle, became a key figure of the Parisian avant-garde movement in the late 1860s up until her untimely death in 1895. Curators Sylvie Patry, general curator, director of conservation ...
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Exhibition Catalogues

Berthe Morisot - Exhibition catalogue

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  • € 39.90
FRENCH LANGUAGE

Official exhibition catalogue of "Berthe Morisot" at the Orsay Museum from June 18 to September 22, 2019.

"(My ambition) would be limited to wanting to fix something of what is happening. Oh, something! The least I can do. Well, that ambition is still overwhelming! An attitude of Julie, a smile, a flower, a fruit, a tree branch, only one of these things would be enough for me."
Berthe Morisot, 1891

As a painter of modern life, she will never cease to fix what is ephemeral by nature, fleeting moments of light and movement, and to blur the boundaries, between interior and exterior, private and public, finished or unfinished.

Illustrated with Morisot's most important paintings, this book allows us to (re)discover the artist in a new light.

French language
304 pages / 200 illustrations

Co-publishing Flammarion / Musées d'Orsay et de l'Orangerie
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