Ева Гонсалес - Альков. L'Alcôve 1875-1878
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Альков. L'Alcôve 1875-1878
46x38см холст/масло
Private collection
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From Sotheby's:
The relative obscurity of Eva Gonzalès is attributable to both her untimely death and to a discordant reception history. Unwilling to exhibit with the Impressionists, Gonzalès stayed the course in the Salons with her maître and achieved significant critical acclaim despite her lack of popularity in the eyes of the public. Her death at the age of 34 left no time for a wide-sweeping survey of her life's work, which for historians and collectors today provides the breathtaking, if stilted, unveiling of an oeuvre of indeterminate size and scope. The present work, only recently unearthed and attributed to Gonzalès, takes as its subject a young girl rising from bed. So blithely weightless as to be barely tethered to its composite materials, the portrait proves exemplary of Gonzalès's well-deserved respect for her virtuosity in the genre. The continued rediscovery of Gonzalès's skillful hand seats her in the pantheon of female Impressionists like Berthe Morisot and Mary Cassatt while her narrative inextricably links her to the male greats of the era.