Berthe Morisot - Young Girl Drawing 1891
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Young Girl Drawing 1891
73x68cm oil on canvas
Private collection
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From Sotheby's:
Like those of fellow female Impressionist Mary Cassatt, Berthe Morisot’s chosen subjects were frequently women and children shown in simple poses or engaged in daily activities. Although the society into which she was born did not freely recognize women as professional artists, her work was executed with a deftness that placed her as a recognized colleague of Monet, Renoir, Pissarro and Sisley, with whom she frequently exhibited. Her paintings represent a synthesis of the feminine subject and the bold technique of the Impressionist movement. Paul Mantz has described her work as having “all the frankness of an improvisation; it does truly give the idea of an ‘impression’ registered by a sincere eye and rendered again by a hand completely without trickery” (Kathleen Adler & Tamar Garb, Berthe Morisot, Ithaca, 1987, p. 72).