Musée d'Orsay pays tribute to impressionist Berthe Morisot with a retrospective

The Musée d’Orsay pays homage to Berthe Morisot: a retrospective dedicated to one ofImpressionism’s most famous painters has opened in the famous Parisian museum, open to the public until September 22, 2019.

Acknowledged as one of the most innovative artists among the Impressionists, Berthe Morisot is nevertheless still less known than Monet, Degas, and Renoir.

The exhibition, titled Berthe Morisot (1841 - 1895), traces her artistic career from her beginnings to her untimely death in 1895.

Among the themes addressed in her paintings are modern, bourgeois life, gardens, fashion, and women’s domestic work, all on the boundaries between inner and outer, public and private. Modern subjects and speed of execution are her hallmarks; her latest works possess anew expressiveness and musicality, inviting the viewer to reflect on the relationship between art and life.

The exhibition is curated by Sylvie Patry, curator at the Musée d’Orsay, and Nicole R. Myers curator at the Dallas Museum of Art. The exhibition is organized by the Musée National des beaux-arts du Québec, Fondation Barnes, and the Dallas Museum of Art and will be presented successively at each of these museum venues.

For info: www.musee-orsay.fr

Image: Berthe Morisot, En Angleterre (Eugène Manet à l’île de Wight) (1875; oil on canvas, 46 x 38 cm; Paris, Musée Marmottan - Claude Monet) © Musée Marmottan Monet, Paris / The Bridgeman Art Library

Musée d'Orsay pays tribute to impressionist Berthe Morisot with a retrospective

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