From October 11, 2025, to February 1, 2026, the Legion of Honor, Advantageous Arts Museum of San Francisco presents the exhibition “Manet & Morisot”
Supply: Advantageous 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 girl to exhibit underneath her personal identify within the unique Impressionist group. Supported by spectacular loans from worldwide museums and personal collections, Manet & Morisot will illustrate the ever-evolving nature of a creative friendship on the coronary heart of Impressionism.
The 2 painters had 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 typically been advised via Manet’s early portraits of Morisot, with Morisot’s personal work handled as an offshoot of Manet’s. Newer scholarship, nevertheless, reveals that, though Morisot appeared 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 selection of topics and high-keyed colours, but additionally 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 mild.
