In Paris, a major exhibition on Mary Cassatt, impressionist painter

The Musée Jacquemart-André in Paris is organizing, from March 9 to July 23, 2018, a major monographic exhibition on Mary Cassatt (Pittsburgh, 1844 - Château de Beaufresne, 1926), an Impressionist painter regarded as one of the greatest American artists ever. She spent more than sixty years in France and was the only American woman to exhibit with the Impressionists: after befriending Degas in 1874, she came into contact with the other members of the group and exhibited regularly with them. Through fifty works (including oils, pastels, drawings and etchings, with major loans from the Metropolitan in New York, the National Gallery in Washington, the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, as well as the Muséand d’Orsay, the Petit Palais, and the Museo de Bellas Artes in Bilbao) and a rich documentary apparatus, the exhibition, entitled Mary Cassatt, une impressioniste américaine a Paris, reconstructs an entire career and communicates to the public the modernity of her painting.

Coming from a French-born banking family, Mary Cassatt studied in her native Pennsylvania and then moved permanently to Paris, but did not fail to return to the United States from time to time. “This cultural duality,” reads the presentation of the exhibition, “is reflected in the singular style of the artist, who was able to walk a path in the masculine world of French art, reconciling these two universes.”

Like another great Impressionist artist, Berthe Morisot, Mary Cassatt excelled in the genre of portraiture, which, the introduction goes on to say, "she approached experimentally. Influenced by the Impressionist movement and its painters who loved to paint everyday life, Mary Cassatt used to depict members of her family, caught in their intimacy. Moreover, her unique look and modern interpretation of the traditional subject of the mother with child would earn her international acclaim and recognition. Through this subject matter, audiences will recognize numerous familiar aspects of FrenchImpressionism and Post-Impressionism and discover new elements that underscore Mary Cassatt’s distinctly American identity."

The exhibition, curated by Nancy Mowll Mathews and Pierre Curie, is open daily from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m., and Mondays until 8:30 p.m. Tickets: full price 13.50, concessions 10.50. Family offer with free admission for a second child between the ages of 7 and 17 (with two adults and one paying child). The exhibition is produced by Culturespaces. Info on the Musée Jacquemart-André website. Hashtag: #MaryCassattAParis.

Pictured: Mary Cassatt, Bébé dans un costume bleu, regardant par dessus l’épaule de sa mère (c. 1889; oil on canvas; Cincinnati, Cincinnati Art Museum, John J. Emery Fund, 1928,222 © Cincinnati Art Museum)

In Paris, a major exhibition on Mary Cassatt, impressionist painter

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