Mary Cassatt. The Independent

Musée d'Orsay, Esplanade Valéry Giscard d'Estaing

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To mark the centenary of the artist’s death, the Orsay Museum is organizing a major exhibition devoted to Mary Cassatt (1844-1926). This is, in France, a highly anticipated event: national museums have never before dedicated a major exhibition to Mary Cassatt, an active member of the Impressionist group and one of its pillars. Her centenary invites us to examine the central place of this… Mary Cassatt described herself as an “American, decidedly and frankly American,” but first anchored her art in the pictorial tradition of the old masters, studied during her travels in Europe…