Berthe Morisot
13 Oct, 2022
750 Painting
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss one of the influential painters at the heart of the French Impressionist movement: Berthe Morisot (1841-1895). The men in her circle could freely paint in busy bars and public spaces, while Morisot captured the domestic world and found new, daring ways to paint quickly in the open air. Her work shows women as they were, to her: informal, unguarded, and not transformed or distorted for the eyes of men. The image above is one of her few self-portraits, though several portraits of her survive by other artists, chiefly her sister Edma and her brother-in-law Edouard Manet.
Guests
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Tamar Garb No other episodes
Professor of History of Art at University College London -
Lois Oliver No other episodes
Curator at the Royal Academy and Adjunct Professor of Art History at the American University of Notre Dame London -
Claire Moran No other episodes
Reader in French at Queen's University Belfast
Reading list
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Berthe Morisot
Kathleen Adler and Tamar Garb (Phaidon, 1987) Google Books → -
The New Painting: Impressionism 1874-1886
Ruth Berson (Documentation. Vol. 1, Reviews, and vol. 2, Exhibited Works, San Francisco: Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, 1996) Google Books → -
Berthe Morisot, 1841-1895: catalogue raisonne de l'oeuvre peint
Alain Clairet, Delphine Montalant and Yves Rouart (Montolivet: CERA-nrs, 1997) Google Books → -
Perspectives on Morisot
T.J. Edelstein (Hudson Press, 1990) Google Books → -
Berthe Morisot's Images of Women
Anne Higonnet (Harvard University Press, 1992) Google Books → -
Berthe Morisot
Anne Higonnet (University of California Press, 1995) Google Books → -
Growing up with the Impressionists: The Diary of Julie Manet
Julie Manet (trans. Jane Roberts) (I.B.Tauris, 2017) Google Books → -
Minor Intimacies and the Art of Berthe Morisot: Impressionism, Female Friendship and Spectatorship
Claire Moran (Dix-Neuf, 25:2, 2021 ) -
The Correspondence of Berthe Morisot
Berthe Morisot (ed. Kathleen Adler and Tamar Garb) (Camden Press, 1987) Google Books → -
Berthe Morisot: Impressionism and the Eighteenth Century
Lois Oliver (exhibition catalogue, Dulwich Picture Gallery, 2023 ) -
Berthe Morisot: Woman Impressionist
Sylvie Patry (Rizzoli International Publications, 2018) -
Vision and Difference: Feminism, Femininity and Histories of Art
Griselda Pollock (Routledge, 2003) Google Books →
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