Musee marmottan monet berthe morisot biography

Past: March 8 → July 1, 2012

The Musée Marmottan presents the first major retrospective of the work of Berthe Morisot (1841-1895) to be held in Paris for almost half a century.

One hundred and fifty paintings, pastels, watercolours and drawings in red chalk and charcoal, from museums and private collections all over the world, retrace the career of the Impressionist movement’s best-known woman painter.

Works selected for the exhibition cover the whole of Berthe Morisot’s artistic career, from her earliest works c. 1860, to her untimely death at the age of 54, in 1895.

The exhibition opens with an exceptional group of self-portraits, and portraits of Morisot by Edouard Manet (the celebrated painter of Olympia was her brother-in-law).

As a founder member of the Impressionist group, and a leading figure in Paris’s artistic and literary circles, Berthe Morisot was also a close friend and associate of Degas, Renoir, Monet, and the poet Stéphane Mallarmé.

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