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Mary Cassatt. The Independent
Culture · Tuesday, October 13 · 09:30 · Paris
Musée d'Orsay, Esplanade Valéry Giscard d'Estaing
Free
To commemorate the centenary of the artist's death, the Musée d'Orsay is organizing a major exhibition devoted to Mary Cassatt (1844–1926). In France this is a highly anticipated event: national museums have never before hosted a major exhibition of Mary Cassatt, an active member of the Impressionist circle and one of its pillars. Her centenary invites us to examine the central role she played in the movement. Mary Cassatt described herself as “American, distinctly and clearly American,” but she first anchored her art in the Old Masters’ pictorial tradition, studied during her travels in Euro…
