“Manet & Morisot”: An Impressionist Friendship

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Wednesday, April 29, 2026, 6:00–7:00 p.m.
Emily Beeny, Chief Curator of the Legion of Honor and Barbara A. Wolfe Curator in Charge of European Paintings at the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco
Location:  Gartner Auditorium
Suzanne and Paul Westlake Performing Arts Center
Free; Ticket Required
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About The Event

Édouard Manet is remembered as the “father” of modern painting, and Berthe Morisot, the only woman founding member of the Impressionist group, often mis-remembered as his pupil. The truth is more complicated. Friends and colleagues, painter and model, collectors of each other’s work, and members of the same family: Manet and Morisot enjoyed a closer relationship than any two other members of the Impressionist circle. While Morisot learned a great deal from Manet during the hours she spent posing in his studio at the beginning of their friendship, by its final years, as she found her own path, Manet began to take lessons from Morisot’s work, borrowing her subject matter, her palette, even her rapid, fluttering brushwork. Tracing their story through works on view in the exhibition Manet & Morisot, discover a friendship that shaped the course of modern art.

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