Berthe Morisot is Shaping Impressionism at the Dulwich Picture Gallery
The first exhibition since 1950 of one of the leading lights of the French impressionist movement has arrived in London, promising a long overdue reappraisal of the artist.The reappraisal because the artist, Berthe Morisot was a woman, at a time when women were often looked at as inferior to male artists, even at the time of her last major exhibition in post-war London. I mean, Manet himself once said of Berthe and Edma Morisot, “What a shame they are not men,”
To be fair, it was bec
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