The Musée Marmottan Monet has invited artist Anne Laure Sacriste to take part in the seventh opus of its Unexpected Dialogues. The artist has chosen a painting by Edouard Manet, a portrait of Berthe Morisot: “Portrait de Berthe Morisot étendue” (1873). In choosing this work, Anne Laure Sacriste questions the gaze of a man (Edouard Manet) on a woman (Berthe Morisot).⁣⁣
The painting reveals the desire, sensuality and complicity that united the two artists. Anne Laure Sacriste puts these qualifiers into perspective by proposing her own vision of this face in a heliogravure that she compares with the original painting. The portrait is reinterpreted by decentering the face, which becomes the reminiscence of a ghostly image appearing behind a black veil, a kind of figurative monochrome.⁣⁣

Curator : Valérie da Costa, art historian, art critic and curator