Berthe Morisot in Nice: Impressionist stopovers.
Electa| N° d'inventaire | 31138 |
| Format | 20 x 27 |
| Détails | 239 p., numerous color illustrations, 102 fig., 71 letter extracts, publisher's hardcover. |
| Publication | Milan, 2024 |
| Etat | Nine |
| ISBN | 9788892826038 |
Electa publishes the catalog for the exhibition "Berthe Morisot in Nice. Impressionist Stopovers," organized at the Musée des Beaux-Arts Jules Chéret (June 8 - September 29, 2024) in partnership with the Palazzo Ducale in Genoa and the Musée d'Orsay. Known as one of the founders of a group that changed the course of art history, Berthe Morisot (1841-1895) is identified as the first female Impressionist. Her extremely varied oeuvre includes nearly five hundred canvases as well as a vast corpus of watercolors, pastels, drawings, and even engravings. In the 1880s, this prolixity drew inspiration from her dazzling discovery of the Riviera. This book explores this little-known aspect of the artist's life, as he stayed twice in Nice, in the winters of 1881-1882 and 1888-1889. Presenting a large number of previously unpublished documents - letters, sketches, more accomplished drawings, paintings - and based on extensive research, it reconstructs Morisot's vacations in depth and shows how much the light, the vegetation, and the city of Nice itself inspired the artist. In fact, Morisot's productions linked to her stays on the Riviera reveal the specificity of her work, compared to the canvases of Monet and Renoir who also painted there, and reveal an artist of finesse and virtuosity.
Electa publishes the catalog for the exhibition "Berthe Morisot in Nice. Impressionist Stopovers," organized at the Musée des Beaux-Arts Jules Chéret (June 8 - September 29, 2024) in partnership with the Palazzo Ducale in Genoa and the Musée d'Orsay. Known as one of the founders of a group that changed the course of art history, Berthe Morisot (1841-1895) is identified as the first female Impressionist. Her extremely varied oeuvre includes nearly five hundred canvases as well as a vast corpus of watercolors, pastels, drawings, and even engravings. In the 1880s, this prolixity drew inspiration from her dazzling discovery of the Riviera. This book explores this little-known aspect of the artist's life, as he stayed twice in Nice, in the winters of 1881-1882 and 1888-1889. Presenting a large number of previously unpublished documents - letters, sketches, more accomplished drawings, paintings - and based on extensive research, it reconstructs Morisot's vacations in depth and shows how much the light, the vegetation, and the city of Nice itself inspired the artist. In fact, Morisot's productions linked to her stays on the Riviera reveal the specificity of her work, compared to the canvases of Monet and Renoir who also painted there, and reveal an artist of finesse and virtuosity.