Berthe Morisot

Impressionist painting, for example, the role of café-concert, where you could go and be entertained as you drank.

is important in Impressionism, or paintings of the coast, of the Norman coast, by Morisot and lots of other people.

Drink is totally prevalent, and Degas and all the other ones.

I mean, there's just the preoccupation with absinthe, for example, which more about that in a while, which has just been legal again, within the last couple of years.

in order to reconstruct it in a fresh and modern way, is, you know, one of the essential gambits of modernism in the hands of Cezanne.

In particular, Degas, certainly, you know, Courbet, Manet, and Morisot, I mean, she's doing the same thing kind of really innovative work in terms of space and color and touch that they are doing.

It just really hasn't been widely recognized.

But these paintings and prints, and Victoria, that you're a print specialist, I think is key.

1874 in Paris, as we've talked about before, you have what is now known as the first Impressionist exhibition.

So these artists, Berthe Morisot, Manet, Monet.

Actually, Manet didn't exhibit with them.

Monet, Renoir, others, um, were kind of fed up that the main way for them to access an audience was through the annual salon.