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Self Portrait,
1885
Berthe Morisot was a French painter and printmaker
who exhibited regularly with the Impressionists and, despite
the protests of friends and family, continued to participate
in their struggle for recognition.
The daughter of a high government official (and a granddaughter
of the important Rococo painter Jean-Honoré Fragonard),
Morisot decided early to be an artist and pursued her goal with
seriousness and dedication. From 1862 to 1868 she worked under
the guidance of Camille Corot. She first exhibited paintings
at the Salon in 1864. Her work was exhibited there regularly
through 1874, when she vowed never to show her paintings in
the officially sanctioned forum again. In 1868 she met Edouard
Manet, who was to exert a tremendous influence over her work.
He did several portraits of her (e.g., “Repose,” c.
1870). Manet had a liberating effect on her work, and she in
turn aroused his interest in outdoor painting.
Morisot's
work never lost its Manet-like quality—an insistence
on design—nor did she become as involved in colour-optical
experimentation as her fellow Impressionists. Her paintings
frequently included members of her family, particularly her
sister, Edma (e.g., “The Artist's Sister, Mme Pontillon,
Seated on the Grass,” 1873; and “The Artist's Sister
Edma and Their Mother,” 1870). Delicate and subtle, exquisite
in colour—often with a subdued emerald glow—they
won her the admiration of her Impressionist colleagues. Like
that of the other Impressionists, her work was ridiculed by
many critics. Never commercially successful during her lifetime,
she nevertheless outsold Claude Monet, Pierre-Auguste Renoir,
and Alfred Sisley. She was a woman of great culture and charm
and counted among her close friends Stéphane Mallarmé,
Edgar Degas, Charles Baudelaire, Émile Zola, Emmanuel
Chabrier, Renoir, and Monet. She married Édouard Manet's
younger brother Eugène.
Reader review: Dominique Bona has produced a fine portrait
of this woman who was the only représentant of her sex
among the impressionists. Berthe Morisot had a close relationship
with Edouard Manet (she married his brother Eugene).Along the
way,the book lets you know the other artists of this movement:
Monet, Degas, Renoir etc.The struggles of their acceptance is
well documented. Nowadays,the literature about the impressionist
school is abondant. After all,this was the beginning of modern
art. Dominique Bona is a gifted writer who wrote other biographies
and a few novels.
Berthe Morisot by Anne Higonnet – Paperback,
240 pages (June 1995) Univ California Press
Berthe Morisot (1841-1895) was one of the founders of Impressionism.
She was also a brilliant interpreter of femininity. Morisot's
luminous images of women's daily experience tapped the resources
of both a widespread women's amateur painting tradition and
an elite artistic avant-garde. Anne Higonnet, Assistant Professor
of Art History at Wellesley College and a noted authority on
Morisot, describes the development of the artist's style, subject
matter, and career. She shows how Morisot, by participating
in the most radical art movement of her time, became able to
express her unique vision.
Berthe
Morisot: Impressionist
by Charles F. Stuckey, W. P. Scott, Suzanne G. Lindsay Hardcover:
228 pages Publisher: Rizzoli Intl Pubns; 1st ed edition (October
1987)
Morisot was a gutsy pioneer among the French impressionists.
As a standard-bearer of the avant-garde, she created a scandal
by helping to organize a public auction of their works, something
very few artists had dared to do. Defying the advice of her
parents and Manet, she remained in Paris when Prussian troops
besieged the city. In her artistic technique she was no less
daring. Around 1874, in pictures of tourists and yacht-filled
rivers, she broke through to an abbreviated, shorthand style
ahead of her contemporaries. Disregarding her own view that
Monet had taken landscape painting to its farthest limits, her
late oils of gardens are brilliant fireworks of color.
Midwest Book Review: This biographical portrait of the
first lady of Impressionism provides college-level readers with
an in-depth study of Morisot's life and contributions to the
art. Mystery and myth have surrounded her life and contributed
to many fallacies: Shennan's research contributes to a very
different view of Morisot's personality and achievements.
Berthe Morisot by Kathleen Adler, Tamar Garb –
Paperback, 128 pages Reprint edition (October 1995) Phaidon
Press Inc.
6 of noted Impressionist painter's best-known
works: The Cradle, The Mother and Sister of
the Artist, The Butterfly Hunt, Hide and Seek,
2 more.
Berthe
Morisot (The Q.L.P. Art Series)
by Jean Dominique Rey – Hardcover: 95 pages
Publisher: Crown (December 28, 1987) Text: English,
French (translation)
Berthe
Morisot by Hugues Wilheml – Paperback
Publisher: Fondation Pierre Gianadda (July 10,
2002)
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Morisot's
work never lost its Manet-like quality—an insistence
on design—nor did she become as involved in colour-optical
experimentation as her fellow Impressionists. Her paintings
frequently included members of her family, particularly her
sister, Edma (e.g., “The Artist's Sister, Mme Pontillon,
Seated on the Grass,” 1873; and “The Artist's Sister
Edma and Their Mother,” 1870). Delicate and subtle, exquisite
in colour—often with a subdued emerald glow—they
won her the admiration of her Impressionist colleagues. Like
that of the other Impressionists, her work was ridiculed by
many critics. Never commercially successful during her lifetime,
she nevertheless outsold Claude Monet, Pierre-Auguste Renoir,
and Alfred Sisley. She was a woman of great culture and charm
and counted among her close friends Stéphane Mallarmé,
Edgar Degas, Charles Baudelaire, Émile Zola, Emmanuel
Chabrier, Renoir, and Monet. She married Édouard Manet's
younger brother Eugène. 
Berthe
Morisot: Le Secret de la femme en noir
Berthe Morisot 
Berthe
Morisot: Impressionist
by Charles F. Stuckey, W. P. Scott, Suzanne G. Lindsay Hardcover:
228 pages Publisher: Rizzoli Intl Pubns; 1st ed edition (October
1987)
Berthe Morisot: The First Lady of Impressionism
Berthe Morisot
by Jean Dominique Rey – Hardcover: 95 pages
Publisher: Crown (December 28, 1987) Text: English,
French (translation)
