Mary Cassatt. L’indépendante
Offentliggjort af Musée d'Orsay
- From tirsdag, oktober 6 to søndag, januar 31, 2027
- 09.30-18.00
- Musée d'Orsay Esplanade Valéry Giscard d'Estaing, 75007 Paris, Frankrig
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In the theatre boxes painted by Mary Cassatt, the women observe as much as they are observed. These scenes of Parisian life set the tone for the retrospective the Orsay Museum has devoted to the American painter, a century after her death. Nearly 80 paintings, pastels and prints trace her career, from her training with the old masters to her experiments with color printmaking.
Based in France, Cassatt opened her own studio and paid her models. At the invitation of Edgar Degas, she participated in four Impressionist exhibitions between 1879 and 1886. The itinerary links her portraits of loved ones, her theatre scenes, and her mother-and-child paintings. It also shows how, by advising American buyers, she helped bring Impressionist painting into their collections.
A film lets us imagine Modern Woman, the monumental decor she created for the Woman's Pavilion at the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago. Pastels and prints reprise some of its motifs. The journey ends with her commitment to women's suffrage, notably during an exhibition organized in New York in 1915.
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Musée d'Orsay
Esplanade Valéry Giscard d'Estaing, 75007 Paris, Frankrig