Artists
Louise Breslau | Two young girls sitting on a banquette 1896 | Grey paper, pastel | Acquired from the Salon of 1897 | Collection: Musée d’Orsay, Paris | Photograph: © RMN (Musée d’Orsay) / Hervé Lewandowski
Marie Bashkirtseff | Portrait of Mme Xc.1884 | Pastel, charcoal | Purchased 1885 | Collection: Musée d’Orsay, Paris | Photograph: © RMN (Musée d’Orsay) / Hervé Lewandowski
Modern Woman: Daughters and Lovers 1850–1918: Drawings from the Musée d’Orsay, Paris | QAG | 24 March—24 June 2012 | Ticketed
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Comprising more than 65 000 objects, the Musée d’Orsay’s holdings of drawings is unrivalled in both quality and quantity, and many renowned artists are represented — Edgar Degas, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Henri de Toulouse Lautrec, Pierre Bonnard — together with some who are less well known, but equally deserving. These artists’ works demonstrate that the second half of the nineteenth century, together with the first decade of the twentieth, witnessed an unprecedented interest in the practice of drawing as a mode of personal expression, and this exhibition presents a group of exemplary works from this era for Gallery audiences to enjoy. All the artists selected for this exhibition were associated by friendship or by commonly held aesthetics. They met regularly in Paris cafes; joined forces when they held exhibitions in the city’s emerging private galleries; and travelled and holidayed together at each other’s, or at collectors’ or patrons’, country properties. (Guy Cogeval | President, Musée d’Orsay, Paris)
Artists Featured
Jules Adler (France) | Eugène Amaury-Duval (France) | Albert Bartholomé (France) | Gil Baer (France) | Marie Bashkirtseff (Ukraine/France) | Georges Bellenger (France) | Émile Bernard (France) | Albert Besnard (France) | Emile Boilvin (France) | Giovanni Boldini (Italy/France) | Pierre Bonnard (France) | Eugène Boudin (France) | Antoine Bourdelle (France) | Marie Bracquemond (France) | Louise Breslau (Bavaria/France) | Leonetto Cappiello (Italy/France) | Mary Cassatt (United States/France) | Carolus-Duran (France) | Jules Chéret (France) | Pascal Adolphe Jean Dagnan-Bouveret (France) | Edgar Degas (France) | Maurice Denis (France) | Emile Barthélémy Fabry (Belgium) | Henri Fantin-Latour (France) | Jean-Louis Forain (France) | Henri Gervex (France) | Eva Gonzalès (France) | Constantin Guys (Netherlands/France) | Paul Helleu (France) | Jules Ferdinand Jacquemart (France) | Pierre-Georges Jeanniot (Switzerland/France) | Léon Kamir (France) | Pierre Franc Lamy (France) | Emile Lévy (France) | Eugène Loup (France ) | Édouard Manet (France) | Charles Maurin (France) | Luc-Olivier Merson (France) | Jean-François Millet (France) | Berthe Morisot (France) | René Piot (France) | Camille Pissarro (Danish West Indies/France) | Pierre Puvis de Chavannes (France) | Henri Regnault (France) | Pierre-Auguste Renoir (France) | Charles Paul Renouard (France) | Auguste Rodin (France) | Félicien Rops (France) | Théophile Steinlen (Switzerland/France) | Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (France) | Théo Van Rysselberghe (Belgium/France) | Édouard Vuillard (France)
