Berthe Morisot - Bust of Alice Gamby 1890
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Bust of Alice Gamby 1890
56x46cm oil/canvas
Private collection
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From Sotheby's:
Alice Gamby en Buste is a classic example of Berthe Morisot’s favoured genre of female portraiture. The sitter, with typically soft features and floating white dress is set against a backdrop consisting of the thick, green palm fronds that the artist regularly employed to provide a flat, colourful and painterly surface without superfluous detailing. Pierre-Auguste Renoir and Morisot enjoyed a fruitful artistic relationship, and when she visited his studio in January of 1886 she was strongly influenced by his graphic technique, thereafter focussing far more on draughtsmanship. Indeed there are various preparatory sketches of this work to evidence this turn towards a less spontaneous Impressionist technique.