The women Impressionists: Berthe Morisot and Eva Gonzalès
Friday 22 May 2020 11am - 12pm
The Benjamin West Lecture Theatre, Burlington Gardens, Royal Academy of Arts
£10, £6
Gauguin and the Impressionists
Join art historian Kathleen Adler in this introduction to the revolutionary careers of Berthe Morisot and Eva Gonzalès, the two women artists included in our exhibition 'Gauguin and the Impressionists'.
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Discover the work of the only two women artists in Wilhelm Hansen’s Ordrupgaard Collection, in this 50-minute talk led by Kathleen Adler.
Using works from the show as a springboard for the talk, Adler demonstrates the artists’ commitment to representing modern life and describes their different approaches to art and the way it's displayed. She'll also reveal how their works entered Wilhelm Hansen’s impressive collection of French art in Ordrupgaard, Denmark.
Berthe Morisot was a key figure in the Impressionist group. She showed in all but one of their eight exhibitions, was highly regarded by her colleagues, and like other Impressionists was completely committed to the idea of independent group shows. Her work was re-evaluated in 2019 in a major traveling exhibition in North America, culminating in the first retrospective of her work at the Musée d’Orsay, Paris.
Unlike Morisot, Eva Gonzalès chose not to exhibit with the Impressionist group, preferring, like her teacher Edouard Manet, to regard the Paris Salon as the key to recognition.
Kathleen Adler is an author, writer, curator and co-author of Berthe Morisot (1987). She has recently contributed symposium papers on Berthe Morisot and Mary Cassatt at the Dallas Museum of Art and the Getty Museum, Los Angeles.