Berthe Morisot à Nice Escales impressionnistes

This is the catalogue of the exhibition of the same name held at the Musée des Beaux-Arts Jules Chéret in Nice from 8 June to 29 September 2024, marking 150 years since the birth of Impressionism. Rejected by the official Salon, with brought together artists with ties to the Académie des Beaux-Arts in Paris, 30 young painters came together in the studio of the photographer Felix Nadar, where they exhibited 63 works. Among the young dissidents were Edgar Degas, Paul Cézanne, Pierre Auguste Renoir, Camille Pissarro, Alfred Sisley, Claude Monet. And only one woman painter: Berthe Morisot (1841-1895).

The exhibition and the accompanying catalogue evoke Morisot’s two stays on the Côte d’Azur in the winters of 1881-1882 and 1888-1889, during which the light, the vegetation and the city of Nice itself were her inspiration. The more than 80 works, photographs and archival documents bring out Morisot’s whole career and private life, touching on original aspects. She shared her intimate, family and professional life not just with the greatest artists of the time, but also with writers such as Stéphane Mallarmé and Emile Zola. The richly illustrated catalogue gives an account of the most recent scholarly developments and contains the complete corpus of the painter’s correspondence during her stays on the Côte d’Azur, as well as an unpublished sketchbook and extensive documentation.

The exhibition will then travel to the Palazzo Ducale of Genoa, running from 11 October 2024 to 23 February 2025, accompanied by the Italian edition of the catalogue.