From October 11, 2025, to February 1, 2026, the Legion of Honor, Positive Arts Museum of San Francisco presents the exhibition “Manet & Morisot”
Supply: Positive Arts Museum of San Francisco · Picture: Berthe Morisot, “Reading”, 1873. The Cleveland Museum of Artwork, Reward of the Hanna Fund 1950.89
That is the primary main exhibition ever devoted to the creative change between the French Impressionist painters Édouard Manet and Berthe Morisot. Manet was the period’s nice pioneer of recent portray, and Morisot, the one lady to exhibit underneath her personal title within the authentic Impressionist group. Supported by spectacular loans from worldwide museums and personal collections, Manet & Morisot will illustrate the ever-evolving nature of an inventive friendship on the coronary heart of Impressionism.
The 2 painters have been buddies, colleagues, collectors of one another’s work, and, after Morisot’s marriage to Manet’s brother in 1874, household. The story of their relationship has usually been advised via Manet’s early portraits of Morisot, with Morisot’s personal work handled as an offshoot of Manet’s. More moderen scholarship, nevertheless, reveals that, though Morisot seemed to Manet for inspiration and approval throughout her early profession, by the ultimate years of his life, Manet had begun to comply with Morisot’s instance, emulating not solely her alternative of topics and high-keyed colours, but in addition her fast, fluttering brushstrokes. Wealthy in new analysis, the exhibition will recast this celebrated creative friendship—and, by extension, the story of recent artwork—in a contemporary gentle.
