Tag: Berthe Morisot
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01 work, PORTRAIT OF A LADY, Édouard Manet’s Berthe Morisot, with Footnotes. #109
Berthe Morisot was the first lady of Impressionism, she first exhibited in the Salon de Refuse in 1864 set up by Napoleon 3 to show work rejected by the Academy. Berthe and her sister Edma trained together, they visited the Louvre to study, for three years they studied with their tutor Guichard. Undervalued for over a century,…
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21 Works, September 23rd. is Suzanne Valadon ‘s day, her story, illustrated with footnotes #208
Presented at the Salon des Indépendants in 1914, the monumental academic panel irritated avant-garde critics. Arthur Cravan, who in issue five of his episodic review Now, writes an angry criticism of the Salon, violently attacks Suzanne Valadon (“[she] knows the little recipes well, but simplifying is not making simple, old bitch!”). Sentenced for defamation, he…
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