Title : Berthe Morisot - The Secret of the Woman in Black - Dominique Bona - book

Summary :

Goncourt Prize for Biography 2000

This young woman in black, with a bouquet of violets, with deep eyes, painted by Manet in the 1870s, is Berthe Morisot. She keeps a secret on her haughty face. A model among others? No: the only woman in the Impressionist group. Berthe Morisot, born in the French provinces in 1841, the daughter of a prefect, painted and exhibited among this clan of men, those who were still outcasts without an audience, those who resisted official art: Manet, Degas, Monet, Renoir. Ardent but dark, gentle but passionate, loving family life but a model and friend—and who knows? perhaps more—of Edouard Manet, whose brother she married: there is an enigma in the silences and shadows of Berthe Morisot.
Dominique Bona, drawing on unpublished archives, spins the fresco of Impressionism: from Giverny to the Normandy beaches, from Mallarmé writing love letters for Méry Laurent or Nina de Callias to the washerwomen posing for Renoir, from the bloody Paris Commune to the reign of the corseted bourgeoisie, from the halls of the Louvre to the workshops of the bohemians.
Dominique Bona paints here the subtle portrait of an artist who invented her freedom.

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