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Mary Cassatt. The Independent
Culture · Tuesday, November 3 · 09:30 · Paris
Musée d'Orsay, Esplanade Valéry Giscard d'Estaing
Free
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 a highly anticipated event in France: 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 role of this… Mary Cassatt described herself as an “American, distinctly and frankly American,” but first anchored her art in the pictorial tradition of the Old Masters, studied during her travels in Europe…
