Two exhibitions on the only woman among the founders of the impressionist movement have been announced

150 years after the birth of Impressionism, it is necessary to underline the importance of a unique figure within a pantheon of great artists: that of Berthe Morisot, the only painter belonging to the nucleus that gave life to the great nineteenth-century movement To celebrate her art and the crucial role she played in the history of Impressionism, two different exhibitions will be inaugurated next October, in Genoa and Turin, which will bring to light the personal and professional links between Morisot and the other exponents of the movement , as well as the style, so peculiar as to offer a completely new perspective on a current known and discussed as the impressionist one. THE ART OF BERTHE MORISOT ON EXHIBITION IN GENOA AND TURIN The first exhibition scheduled is the Genoese one, and will be entitled Impression, Morisot . Set up in the spaces of Palazzo Ducale from 11 October to 23 February 2025, the Genoese retrospective will retrace the artistic career of the French painter, through an exhibition corpus of over eighty works that will outline the private and professional profile of the artist, with particular attention to relationships with the other impressionists: Morisot was in fact married to Eugène Manet, painter and brother of the more famous Édouard. On 16 October, the Berthe Morisot exhibition will inaugurate at the GAM – Galleria Civica d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea in Turin. Impressionist painter, open to visitors until 9 March 2025. Set up in collaboration with the museum that collects the largest number of works by the artist, the Musée Marmottan Monet in Paris, the Turin exhibition aims to underline how the painter’s style, bright and rich of grace, adhered perfectly to the poetics of a movement always attentive to representing the surrounding nature in an immediate way.THE IMPORTANCE OF THE ONLY ARTIST OF IMPRESSIONISMExponent of the very first hour of the movement of the impressionist “outcasts”, together with Paul Cézanne among others, Edgar Degas and Claude Monet, Berthe Morisot took part in seven of the eight initial exhibitions of the movement between 1874 and 1886, including the first historic exhibition at the photographer Nadar’s studio in Paris. Thanks to her careful representation in her works of the daily sphere of the society of the time, Morisot was able to gain a prominent place in the modern artistic panorama, worthy of being celebrated within the framework of the many initiatives promoted to celebrate the 150th anniversary of Impressionism .[Immagine in apertura: Berthe Morisot (1841–1895). Woman with a Fan or At the Ball, 1875. Oil on canvas, 62 × 52 cm. Gift of Eugène and Victorine Donop de Monchy, 1940. Inv. 4020. Paris, musée Marmottan Monet © Musée Marmottan Monet]