Berthe Morisot Comes Into Her Own
Saturday, October 6, 2018
Berthe Morisot, Self-Portrait, 1885. Musée Marmottan Monet. Detail photo Rachel Cohen.
This is an essay on the painter Berthe Morisot and an important retrospective of her work in 2018 that originated in Québec at the MNBAQ, and traveled to the Barnes Collection in Philadelphia, the Dallas Museum of Art, and the Musée d'Orsay, Paris. The essay appeared in Apollo Magazine in October, 2018.
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