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.
Painting from a
model allowed Berthe Morisot to explore several themes of modern life, such as
the private life of the bourgeoisie, the popularity of holiday resorts and
gardens, and the importance of fashion and women’s domestic work, while
blurring the borders between the interior and exterior, the private and the
public, the finished and the unfinished. It was her belief that painting should
endeavour to “capture something that passes”.
Modern subjects and
rapid execution are thus linked to the temporality of the representation, and
the artist tirelessly tackled the ephemeral and the passing of time. Her last
works, characterised by a new expressiveness and musicality, provoke an often
melancholic meditation of these relationships between art and life.
Curators
Sylvie Patry,
general curator, director of conservation and collections at the musée d'Orsay
Nicole R. Myers,
Lillian and James H. Clark Curator of Painting and Sculpture at the Dallas
Museum of Art
The exhibition is
organised by the Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec, the Barnes
Foundation, the Dallas Museum of Art and the Musée d'Orsay and the Musée de
l'Orangerie.
The exhibition will
be successively presented at each of the museums:
Musée national des
beaux-arts du Québec, Québec, from 21 June to 23 September 2018
Barnes Foundation,
Philidelphia, from 20 October 2018 to 14 January 2019
Dallas Museum of
Art, Dallas, from 24 February to 26 May 2019.
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