Publication
Modern Woman: Daughters and Lovers 1850–1918: Drawings from the Musée d’Orsay, Paris | QAG | 24 March—24 June 2012 | Ticketed
Modern Woman: Daughters and Lovers 1850–1918: Drawings from the Musée d’Orsay, Paris is a beautifully illustrated publication with drawings by some of the leading artists of the French Belle Époque — Pierre Bonnard, Edgar Degas, Édouard Manet, Jean-Francois Millet, Berthe Morisot, Camille Pissarro, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Auguste Rodin and Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec.
An essay by the exhibition’s curator, Isabelle Julia, the Musée d’Orsay’s Curator in Charge, Department of Graphic Arts, investigates the expressive medium of drawing and various aspects of modern life through images of maternity, women in love and alone, portraits, nudes and women at leisure — in city streets, cafes and on the stage. Providing an examination of a watershed period of French history through drawing, the publication features more than 90 depictions of women and the female form.
‘Modern Woman: Daughters and Lovers 1850–1918: Drawings from the Musée d’Orsay, Paris’, an exhibition organised by the Musée d’Orsay, Paris, in association with the Queensland Art Gallery and Art Exhibitions Australia, and held at the Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane, 24 March – 24 June 2012.
Available from the Gallery Store or online. Available mid March or pre-order your copy today.
