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Berthe Morisot retrospective. (Report from Europe).(Palais des Beaux-Arts, Lille, France)(Brief Article)

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Berthe Morisot was born in Bourges France, in 1841 into an upper middle-class family directly related to Jean Honore Fragonard. She and her sister Edma were encouraged to draw and paint, and among their teachers was Jean Baptiste Camille Corot: In late 1867 or 1868 Berthe Morisot met Edouard Manet, whom she introduced to plein-air painting. In 1874 she married Manet's brother Eugene. The following year she visited Britain where she studied J. M. W Turner's technique and painted several sea views.

The first impressionist exhibition was held in 1874, and Monsot exhibited at all of them with the exception of the one held in 1879. The last of these exhibitions, which she organized, took place in 1886.

Edouard Manet's death in 1883 put Morisot under the influence of Pierre Auguste Renoir, and they ...

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